Former INS agent calls Bush amnesty plan a terrorist's dream
Jim Brown
OneNewsNow.com
April 11, 2007

 A man who worked more than 30 years for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) says it would be a nightmare for the United States if Congress enacts President Bush's "temporary guest worker" program for illegal immigrants. The former senior special agent suggests the proposal should be considered "dead on arrival" before Capitol Hill lawmakers even take it up.

The president is urging Congress to approve what he calls a "comprehensive immigration reform" bill that combines tough border enforcement with a "temporary guest worker" program that awards visas to millions of illegal aliens already in the U.S. Mike Cutler, formerly with the INS and now a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), contends President Bush is "hallucinating" when he says his temporary guest worker program will ease pressure along the U.S.-Mexico border.

"How does he plan to make certain that the aliens actually abide by the visas that they would be given for temporary employment if we're unable to enforce the immigration laws right now?" he asks. Cutler also wonders if, under the president's plan, the term "temporary" simply acknowledges that those who are in the country illegally "won't live forever, so sooner or later either they'll pass away or move out of the country on their own volition."

The CIS spokesman views the president's plan as a threat to national security. "How would we prevent terrorists from gaming the system and then getting official identity documents and false names, as they did as they prepared to attack our country back on September 11, 2001?" he inquires. And assuming that could not be prevented, he believes such individuals could then use that documentation to obtain driver's licenses and Social Security cards, thereby allowing them to create fictitious identities for themselves.

According to Cutler, the goal for most illegal aliens is to "come to the United States in violation of our law, work in our country, and send the money home." He says every time the president has mentioned a "guest worker program," the Border Patrol has reported consistently that the number of apprehensions along the Mexican border has soared dramatically as more illegal aliens run the border in hopes of participating in such a program in the future.