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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Illegal Immigration

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Written by Laurence F Sanford, Senior Analyst ASCF

Categories: ASCF Articles

Comments: 2

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March 5th, 2024 - Mass illegal immigration is leading to Societal Suicide in the United States. A country with no control over its borders has no country, which results in:

● Breakdown of society because of millions of illegal immigrants with no commonality to American Civilization
● Drugs killing Americans
● Increased crimes - murder, robbery, child trafficking, prostitution, slavery
● Bankrupt cities, medical facilities, and education systems
● Terrorism
● Diseases once rare in the U.S. are now on the rise

The American Civilization is breaking down due to the massive influx of mostly young men coming from cultures with none of the attributes that make America great. American Civilization is based on merit, order and law, the English language, individual freedoms of speech, religion, the pursuit of happiness (virtue), capitalism, and equality. Diversity based on race or religion is not our strength; unity of culture is our strength! “E Pluribus Unum” (out of many, one) is our national motto.

According to the U.S. Border Patrol and Office of Field Operations, in the past three years, over 7.2 million illegal migrants have crossed the U.S. border, which is more than the population of 36 states. Not included in this tally are 1.5 million “gotaways” who are defined by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as “a person who is not turned back or apprehended after making an illegal entry” along the U.S. border. A “gotaway” is recorded when cameras or sensors detect illegals crossing the border, but no one is found, or border agents were not available to respond.

Illegal immigrants total 8.7 million. The number is substantially higher if one includes gotaways who avoided detection and thus are more dangerous. 10 million or more is the probable number of illegal immigrants.

Deadly drugs are crossing the border. Over 110,000 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2023, with fentanyl accounting for two-thirds of the deaths. China manufactures fentanyl precursor chemicals and then ships them on Chinese ships to Manzanillo, a Chinese-controlled Mexican port; the chemicals are then shipped to a Chinese-controlled fentanyl manufacturing facility in Mexico with 2000 Chinese nationals, from where the drugs are distributed through an alliance of Chinese and Mexican drug cartels to the United States. The drug monies collected from drug sales are then laundered by Chinese students on education visas through Chinese state-owned banks.

Violent crimes of rape, robbery, and murder are surging with illegal immigrants. See the chart below from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Total Criminal Convictions by Type
This table organizes nationwide convictions of criminal noncitizens by type of criminal conduct. Because some criminal noncitizens may be convicted of multiple criminal offenses, the total convictions listed below exceed the total arrests noted in the table above.

Conviction Type FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24YTD
Assault, Battery, Domestic Violence 692 524 299 208 1,178 1,142 1,254 372
Burglary, Robbery, Larceny, Theft, Fraud 595 347 184 143 825 896 864 236
Driving Under the Influence 1,596 1,113 614 364 1,629 1,614 2,493 935
Homicide, Manslaughter 3 3 2 3 60 62 29 14
Illegal Drug Possession, Trafficking 1,249 871 449 386 2,138 2,239 2,055 536
Illegal Entry, Re-Entry 4,502 3,920 2,663 1,261 6,160 6,797 8,790 3,517
Illegal Weapons Possession, Transport, Trafficking 173 106 66 49 336 309 307 80
Sexual Offenses 137 80 58 156 488 365 284 73
Other1 1,851 1,364 814 580 2,691 2,891 3,286 1,072

TV, newspapers, social media, and websites tell of illegal immigrant crimes:

● Police are attacked in New York City, with the attacker being released the next day, flashing the high sign.
● A University of Georgia coed was murdered while running.
● Almost two-thirds of federal arrests involve noncitizens.

In 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered 169 persons on the terror watch list and 15,267 with criminal convictions.

Summary

The U.S. economy needs immigrant workers. The question is how to control the flow. The answer is that laws and regulations now exist to dramatically reduce and control the inflow. The problem is the lack of political will to enforce the laws and regulations.

The cost to American society of illegal immigration at present levels is unsustainable. It is estimated that the annual cost to American citizens is $150 billion. Cities and states are facing dramatic cost increases servicing illegal immigrants. New York City will pay $10 billion to service migrants in education, health care, food, housing, and law enforcement.

The U.S. border enforcement budget has risen to $25.9 billion --- more than twice the FBI’s budget.

Action

1. Build a border wall along the Mexican border. Strengthen Canadian border control.
2. Enforce existing immigration laws.
3. Pass legislation to address the issue of law-abiding and economically independent migrants living in the U.S.
4. Deport/incarcerate law-breaking migrants.

Peace Through Strength!

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  1. Sean Fischer Sean Fischer Quote: The U.S. economy needs immigrant workers.
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    This is not a convincing statement. If comparing economic models with varying success, the Eastern Axis once embraced the Command Economy of the USSR. The West, a (semi) Free Market Economy and for now continues to stand. East Asian China, has its new hybrid-mixed economy. As Beijing is the closest peer competition to Washington DC, let us look at some differences between multipolar competition.

    China has a surprisingly low number of foreign-born residents. About 1 million, or just 0.07 per cent of its population, are immigrants. This percentage is astonishingly lower compared to other big economies, such as the United States (15 per cent), Germany (19 per cent) or Canada (21 per cent). Feb 8, 2024
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    This staggering difference in policy between the Washington DC and Beijing delivers us a ratio of 214 to 1. For every 214 immigrants inside the USA there is just 1 immigrant in China, Huh? Even more concerning when one acknowledges that China has a population that is 4 times larger. In rebuttal the American economy does not need more immigrants, it instead must begin the arduous process of permanently removing them. If looking at some of the policies Beijing leverages vs that of Washington DC, it demonstrates American executive leadership and Congressional incompetence.
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    Source:
    [https://www.ispionline.it/en/publication/why-isnt-china-considering-immigration-against-demographic-decline-163101#:] Wednesday, May 29, 2024
  2. Sean Fischer Sean Fischer Quote: According to Rory Truex, a researcher of Chinese politics at Princeton University "the CCP tightly controls the nomination and election processes at every level in the people's congress system...the tiered, indirect electoral mechanism in the People's Congress system ensures that deputies at the highest levels face no semblance of electoral accountability to the Chinese citizenry."
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    Inside Communist China, people not only like their jobs, they adamantly protect their right to employment with vocal dissent to their local officials. The Chinese people know well that there are far fewer jobs vs. the billion and half people to work those jobs. This ratio of employment vs. workers is something the American, fails to comprehend. The reason for this failure of comprehension, since Truman’s acknowledged yet failed Bracero Program we can estimate over 100 million foreigners (and their spawn) have produced both a gross oversupply of labor, and catastrophically driven wages down. The result is, there is no longer a robust middle class America. The blame today is simple, Ronald Reagan. Reagan had no idea of how “supply and demand economics works. Proof, he failed to secure the US borders, failed to limit the flow of non skilled immigrants, and failed to deport illegal aliens when his multi-term administration had every chance.
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    Conversely, to squelch political dissent - in China those positions in government equivalent to the American executive leadership and Congressional representatives actually do listen to their unhappy constituents. This political attention occurs for many reasons. One of them is tied to muting the unarmed people’s dissent after generational lesson of experiencing Tiananmen Square demonstrations. Another is from the local, town, city, and regional political levels – the Chinese People’s Party has no problem placing blame onto lower political functionaries. Few relish the alternatives to being fired, ridiculed through public humiliation, arrested, tried and placed into the prisons they sent so many other Chinese into. Through such attention to preventing more uprisings there is very real vigilance against unauthorized immigration into China.
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    In China, policy change happens without the favoritism of campaign contributions - or as we know well the US political "Pay-to-Play" system. Systems at local, state, and federal levels where corporations diligently craft and have political appointees enact tailored legislation, all the while usurping the Polis – our community with their very little recourse, and limited individual rights. Comparing the Bill of Rights and its first 10 Amendments to the Constitution, we see that "...current estimates on the number of Federal laws protecting business and corporations in America range anywhere between 15,000 and 50,000, with approximately 300,000 laws, many that cover government agency regulations.
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    To that lopsided volume of legislation against the US citizen, the laws benefiting commercial business and corporations, corporate caw protections handles the rules, regulations, and laws concerning the formation and operation of corporations. Business and commercial protections handles the interactions between businesses and people, including customers and employees. This far outstrips the individual citizen taxpayers standing, with a paltry (10 amendments) document known as, the Bill of Rights. Like the well known political adage states "Government, Begets Government." While in this case, the Chinese government worries about its own necks, whereas the US government worries about its pockets getting lined by its most favored donors. What American legislators do not worry about is the 100 million foreigners, and the collapse of the middle class, like you, the people to your side, and me.
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    Source(s):
    [Truex, Rory (2016-10-28). Making Autocracy Work: Representation and Responsiveness in Modern China. Cambridge University Press.https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/making-autocracy-work/57BB75703B01DB41446C2C4E052B74CF]
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    [https://weisblattlaw.com/blog/difference-between-business-lawyer-corporate-lawyer/]
    Saturday, June 1, 2024