On January 19th, 2005, I watched a program on CNN entitled, "Defending America".  The program aired during the Anderson Cooper 360 show.  In it, CNN’s Drew Griffin interviewed Michael Touhey the American Airlines ticket agent who sold tickets to Mohammed Atta and his henchman.

 

The most compelling part of the show, to me, was that the first thing Mr. Touhey thought when Atta approached his counter was, "if these two don't look like terrorists, I don't know who does" (paraphrased).  Yet, despite his "gut feeling", he issued tickets to both.  In fact, he said that his second thought was of shame for judging based on his "gut feeling" and their appearance.

 

Thus, he faced a “catch-22” situation that has been imposed by our country's incessant quest for political correctness and tolerance.  If he questions their motives, he is likely to face a reprimand for "racially profiling."  If he issues tickets, he runs the risk of letting two individuals who may be terrorists, on board the plane.  Unfortunately for hundreds of people that day, he erred on the side of political correctness.

 

Of course Mr. Touhey would take it all back were he given the chance today.  So this brings us to the question, if hindsight is 20-20 would he be correct in calling the authorities to check out the two men?  Of course, the rational among us emphatically scream, "YES!"  However, if this is the case, why do we still not allow our law enforcement officers to do the same?

 

The answer is because the "deafening minority" is louder than the "silent majority".  Anytime there is the appearance of a law enforcement officer singling out a minority, this relatively small minority of people (or groups like National Council of the Race, ACLU, or MALDEF) cry foul.

 

Is it safe to assume then, that those opposed to allowing law enforcement officers to use their experience (aka “gut feelings”) and profiling techniques to question individuals would still want Mr. Touhey to issue the tickets?  Doing otherwise would be to "racially profile" according to these same people.

 

Which way do we want it? We cannot have it both ways.  Do we continue to cower in the face of the "deafening minority," or use "common sense" profiling to thwart crimes in our nation?

 

I liken the situation to the inland immigration enforcement operations (aka "sweeps") that occurred in June of 2004 in southern California.  When, once again, the "deafening minority" cried foul to theUndersecretary of DHS, Asa Hutchinson ,and the sweeps were stopped, a human rights commission was convened in Riverside, CA to discuss the appropriate methods for our law enforcement officers to use when identifying potential illegal aliens (or other criminals for that matter).  At that meeting, I was present at that commission and reasoned with the commission that the techniques used by immigration officials should be similar to those of vice officers when picking up prostitutes.

 

If the law enforcement officers see a group of scantily-clad women (a subjective assessment) at night approaching cars that stop by the side of the road, in an area known for prostitution, their reasonable conclusion is that these women are prostitutes, and they act accordingly.  Likewise, if immigration officers see a bunch of men in work clothes (another subjective assessment) on the side of the road approaching pick-up trucks as they come by and leaving in those trucks, their reasonable conclusion is that these men are illegal aliens and should be able to act as such.

 

It is entirely possible for the women to be tourists asking for directions, just like it is possible for the men to be American citizens looking for work.  With the presumption that there can always be doubt about these conclusions, why can vice make these judgment calls and immigration and local law enforcement officials not be allowed to do so?

 

We need our public officials to reassure the law enforcement community that they will be defended by their federal, state and local governments, should a group like "The Race", ACLU, or MALDEF bring suit against them for using "common sense" profiling.  We need to begin standing up for each other when we see someone wrongly labeled as a “racist” with the not-so-hidden-agenda of silencing them.  We cannot continue to let the “deafening minority” dictate the security—or lack thereof--of our country and usurp our laws to suit their purpose.

Patriots:

 

            The next four years may be a very difficult time for our great nation if either of the two main parties have their way.  In both cases, “comprehensive immigration reform” (e.g. Amnesty) will be the order of the day.  The FIRE Coalition, along with many others, was successful at fending off the 2007 amnesty attempt through our on-the-ground education of federal legislators in the weeks leading up to the final vote, and we may need to lead a similar effort in the future.

 

            However, we are not content to sit and wait for the inevitable.  All politics is local, and it is in the cities and counties that the effects if the illegal alien invasion are felt first hand by our families and our communities.  The open borders lobby (and their puppets in our government) would have you believe that illegal immigration is a federal matter and must be reserved for the federal government.  It works in their favor if we believe this because it is easier to attempt to influence (“buy off”) 545 federal officials than thousands of state and local officials.  We know, however, that the illegal alien invasion is far from just a federal responsibility.

 

The state and local authorities have as much a responsibility to protect their citizens as the federal government; even more so since they are closest to the crimes and can react with more speed and flexibility.  Though cities and counties may not be able to enforce the border or deport illegal aliens, they can certainly seize the initiative and take defensive and offensive measures to protect their citizens.  City and county councils can pass ordinances.  States can pass new laws.  But in all cases, creativity is key.

 

We have already set in motion our plans to engage our state and local teams with their respective elected officials—and we want you to be a part of this effort.  The FIRE Coalition has had great success partnering with state and local officials across the country:  holding National Security Conferences, Workshops, Training Sessions, and more.   These events are designed to bring creative and previously-tested solutions to the table for local and state leaders to deploy in their jurisdictions.

 

However you choose to stay involved in this critical fight to defend our nation’s sovereignty, know that we will provide whatever support we can to aid you.  Please consider participating in one of our events or if you would like to schedule something similar, let us know and we can help you with ideas.

 

Thank you for your continued efforts in service to your country and please don’t hesitate to call on us to assist you in any way.

  

Keep up the fight!

 

                                                                                                            Jason Mrochek

                                                                                                            Co-founder & Executive Director

                                                                                                            FIRE Coalition

Today, was the first day of a 2-day garage sale my wife and I decided to have to rid ourselves of the junk that accumulates in our house.  What transpired with the very first customer seemed like either a cruel joke or God's encouragement that we must continue to save our country, our heritage, and our culture.

A nice Lincoln SUV approached and while I was still moving things out to the driveway to sell, and my wife was arranging the last few items, the occupants of the vehicle (at least some of them) were perusing our tables.  When I returned outside, I noticed what I thought was power steering fluid leaking out of their SUV.  When I started walking around the car, the father was standing behind their youngest son while the son was urinating near the tire and onto our residential street.  The "power steering fluid" was actually this young boy's urine running down our hill.

I immediately yelled at the father to knock it off and asked him where he thought he was, but was met with just a big, dumb smile.  Meanwhile, the other occupants, the mother and what I presumed to be a grandmother, were just laughing away.  It was then that it occurred to me that these people had never actually responded to any of our greetings or accusations in English.  When I tried again to haze the father, he only spoke broken and unintelligible English.  My wife then told them all to leave and when the mother indicated that she wanted an item, my wife told her to put it down and leave.  We didn't need the money that bad.

These were the real-life example of "family values" that George Bush claims don't stop at the Rio Grande.  This was a perfect example of what has somehow become acceptable behavior as the rest of America sticks their heads in the sand and thinks there is nothing wrong with importing millions of 3rd world peasants into our country that was founded by English-speaking, God-fearing, Bible-believing Christians that based their laws and culture on the Bible.

This is the same country that we are about to lose if individual Americans don't start standing up and saying "NO" whenever they see their laws, culture, and heritage being stripped away before their very eyes.  It is no longer acceptable to say, "I wish someone would do something about this problem" and go back to watching American Idol.  It's about choosing the "harder right" over the "easier wrong". 

Get involved personally.  Whether it's your time or your money that you can give--choose one.  It's your country that's at stake.

Jason Mrochek
Co-founder & Executive Director
FIRE Coalition
http://www.firecoalition.com/

She should be scared to send her children to school if they are breaking the law. Part of the effectiveness of punishments is the deterrent effect. She wouldn't have to worry about when she'd see her husband again had they stayed in their own country.



Again, panic is a good thing when it comes to the realization that you could be next for breaking the law



"Stormed in?" Come one...Fox News is as bad as the rest of the MSM!



Who coached her to say "traumatized?" And Sport Utility Vehicle? I'm sure there are plenty of Americans who would love a job that afforded them the opportunity to purchase an SUV.


The answer: just scared enough. Fear changes behavior.


That's right. Americans are waking up and saying, "this is not acceptable in our country anymore." Anywhere illegal aliens turn, this is what they should be met with: someone, somewhere making a call to the authorities to report illegal activity. If at every attempt to gain advantage from living in America, illegal aliens are met with fierce opposition, they will realize it is not worth it to leave their jobs in their home country to come here.


Ok...what is this nonsense? Office of Refugee Resettlement. I can understand for true refugee reasons, but for underage illegal aliens. No way! Preferential treatment of "underage" illegal aliens is exactly what got the Bologna family decimated in San Francisco.

Oh you mean illegal immigration is not a victimless crime? Who knew! I guess we need to add a little to this statement "they're just here to do the jobs that Americans won't do..." to include "...that pay enough to buy SUVs and to steal our identities and ruin our credit ratings and mess up our social security accounts"


They knew the risks when they chose to break the law in coming here. In fact they'll have another choice before being separated from their families: would you like to self-deport with your families? It's a sure way to keep their families together, but they'll choose no and then complain that WE"RE tearing their families apart.



This is a shame; the executives and managers should be held criminally liable. They must think we all fell off the turnip truck this morning. 600 illegal aliens working for you and you are doing everything legally? Either you are lying or the government is rolling out useless programs and I know the latter is not the case. At our National Security Convention in Devner last week, a State Senator from Colorado who also runs his families concrete business uses E-Verify and he stated that 20% of their applicants fail the system and voluntarily leave their employment, so it obviously works.



Though Howard Industries was not on the WeHireAliens.com website, Agriprocessors and Swift both were submitted to our site and subsequently to ICE many months prior to the investigations and busts.

Keep those submissions coming in!

In speaking with Jeff Lewis, our National Director, the other day, we were just talking about how many fronts the FIRE Coalition and her partners are fighting to end the invasion of illegal aliens into the United States.

It never ceases to amaze me what a coalition of determined and fiercely patriotic American citizens can do when they set their mind to it, and then it struck me: we've never really shared what an average month is like on the front lines.

For that, please accept my apologies and allow me to rectify it now.

This is an excerpt of recent emails depicting a recent week for ONLY one volunteer on our national staff:

"Just within the past 30 days I have been to D.C. three times, [educating our elected officials], one speaking engagement on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol with Congressman Ron Paul and Constitution Party Presidential Candidate Chuck Baldwin, amongst others, met with Members of Congress, the Immigration Reform Caucus, had meetings in Richmond, Chicago, oversaw the negotiations with a college president that resulted in the prevention of the Mexican Consulate from giving out Matricula Consular cards on his campus, oversaw a workshop with local elected officials and the chamber of commerce in South Carolina that will result in new ordinances to go after employers of illegal aliens, set the stage for new crime-free housing agreements in two states, spoke to a Republican Party group about several of our projects they requested, gave a workshop in Kentucky attended by our state leadership there and attended by local leaders, as well as our Tennessee leadership, am currently in Chicago working with our partners and leadership there, will leave for South Carolina over the weekend to have meetings with a local participating 287(g) sheriff's department prior to making a presentation to a county council there, only to get on a plane to head to Denver the next day to participate in the 3-day national security convention we are holding in Colorado with federal, state, and local officials, including the American Legion, the Concerned Women for America, (both the largest groups of their kind in the country, and strong FIRE Coalition partners), and THEN my schedule gets busy."

This is the kind of efforts, cooperation, and results you get when you put together the best leadership team in the nation that is willing to place mission ahead of ego, principle over partisanship, and patriotism ahead of profiteering. This is all possible because of your support both with your time (by volunteering through our Citizen's Network) and your donations.

I am extremely proud of our leadership team at the National, State, and Local levels (find out who they are at http://www.FIRECoalition.com/fireteams). When you get a chance, please reach out to them and thank them as well!

Keep up the fight!

Hey gang,

This is what it looks like to go on offense!

Click here for North County Times article.

FIRE Coalition partners have been going after La Raza with a vengeance. This past week, two of our best and brightest groups, the San Diego Minutemen and You Don't Speak For Me represented the coalition in front of the National Council of The Race's Convention in San Diego.

For even longer, I have been urging our partners to stop referring to NCLR as ""La Raza,"" and begin referring to them using the english translation, ""The Race"".

Sure enough according to the article, ""In media interviews, La Raza officials spent a lot of time defending the name last week. The group, which bills itself as one of the largest Latino civil rights groups, says its critics are willfully misrepresenting the name.""

According to my University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary, Third Edition, 1977, the word raza means ""f. race clan breed fissure, crevice""

I'm sure our partners in Illinois, the Minutemen Midwest and Chicago Minutemen will find that very ironic considering the hotbed of pro-invasion forces in Chicago.

Let me close by encouraging all of you to continue to speak the truth and unravel the web of deciet that the media tries to entangle us in each day. It is through this method of confronting lies with truth, and evil with good that we will gain the support of the rest of Americans as they finally can see through the fog that the media has kept them in over the years.

Keep up the fight!

Jason Mrochek
Co-founder & Executive Director
FIRE Coalition 
http://www.FIRECoalition.com

Greetings!

As we near the 232nd birthday of our nation, I wanted to take some time to reflect on the founding of our great nation and what it will take to keep it sovereign.

Two-hundred thirty-two years ago, some very brave men gathered together to defy the foremost power in the world because they felt that "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" were "unalienable Rights."

Has anything changed?  Not in principle, but think about this: when you think of strong men of faith, character, and leadership from the founding era, I'll bet you could name 10-20 names in a manner of seconds--George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, Benjamin Rush, Charles Carroll, etc.
Back then it is estimated that we had only 3 million people living in the colonies.
Fast forward to today, with over 300 million (and counting), how many strong men of faith, character, and leadership could you name on the national scene? Um...Um...Um...you'd be hard-pressed to name just a few.
Think about why that is.  I will only propose a couple of reasons, though there are many more. 

1) In the 232 years since the founding of our nation, we have become less and less dependent on God and more dependent on Uncle Sam.

It was one of the wisest of our founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, who said,

"I've lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing Proofs I see of this Truth — That God governs in the Affairs of Men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that except the Lord build the House they labor in vain who build it. I firmly believe this, — and I also believe that without his concurring Aid, we shall succeed in this political Building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our Projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a Reproach and Bye word down to future Ages."

It is amazing that this man could so accurately predict the affairs of man more than 200 years in the future.  Or is it?  How did he know? Well he turned to the Book that men have turned to for centuries for wisdom; the Book which, if you read the writings of the authors and signers of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, they all used as inspiration for founding our nation.

2) In the 232 years since the founding of our nation, we have not maintained enough intestinal fortitude to stand up to the "small" evils that collectively have ushered in some semblance of tyranny in our own beloved nation.  These "evils" come upon us slowly, yet before you know it (like a boiled lobster--one degree at a time), we are almost cooked.
It is high time we began to realize that our founding fathers had it right--with the Declaration of Independence, with the Constitution, and with their willingness to sacrifice of self to fight evil where they saw it, no matter how small it seemed at the time.  Remember, at every attempt by the crown to place the colonies more firmly under his thumb, they rose in defiance--either in writing or in deed.

So this Independence Day, make a committment to yourself and to your family and countrymen: YOU be that leader of character and faith.  Even if no one around you is doing the right thing, stand up and say "no" to every evil you encounter.  You may surprise yourself. Don't be surprised, though, if others are drawn to you.  Lend each other mutual support and then lead together.

I wish you a safe and enjoyable holiday and please keep up the fight!

Jason Mrochek
Co-founder & Executive Director
FIRE Coalition

On June 6th, 2006, I was invited to speak to the Temecula/Murrieta California Republican Assembly where I delivered a speech focused on educating and motivating attendees to action.  I've included the transcript of my speech below.

 

Jason Mrochek

Co-founder & Executive Director

FIRE Coalition

 

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Good evening.

 

I’ve been invited here this evening to talk to you about the largest invasion in the history of the world…and it’s happening right under our noses and without a shot being fired--so far.

 

Many of you who get your news from sources other than the mainstream media know exactly what I’m talking about.  These networks will never fully connect the dots for you about how pervasive and dangerous the illegal alien invasion really is.  Nor will they ever really ask the hard questions of our politicians to force the solutions that are required to stop the single biggest threat this nation is facing today.

 

But first, let’s catch everyone up to speed on the magnitude of the problem. 

I think it’s important, at this point, to cast aside any questions or doubts about agendas and motives.  I have brought with me tonight my two guiding documents.  First and foremost is the Holy Bible, the inspired word of God.  How many of you out there believe that this contains absolute truths and God’s commandments for us to live by?

 

For the rest of you, don’t worry, this won’t be a sermon, but if you are at all curious, I would encourage you to talk with me or Danny G., or Jason Z. or Tom R.

 

The second document is the Constitution of the United States.  How many of you believe that this is the supreme law of the land and cannot, and should not, be watered down without amendment, and should be interpreted with it’s original intent?

 

As for me, I strive to live my life by the first, and I swore an oath of service to support and defend the second one: an oath that does not expire.  I suspect many of you in this room swore that same oath when you entered the military.

 

Unfortunately today, our federal government is falling down on the job.  They are not upholding Article 4 Section 4 of the Constitution which calls for them to protect each state against invasion.

 

Yes, I said invasion. 

The most conservative estimates on how many illegal aliens there are in this country say 12 million.  In my 4 years of research and experience, I believe the number is well over 30 million today, but let’s take the conservative approach.  The number 12 million has been touted by the main stream media each year since 2005. 

Is there anyone in this room that believes no new illegal aliens have snuck across our border since then?

 

In the Fall of 2006, The House Committee on Homeland Security released a report called “A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border” (LIS).  I’ve brought two extra copies with me.  In this report, the government release staggering statistics that you will seldom hear from the main stream media: 

"Federal law enforcement estimates that 10 percent to 30 percent of illegal aliens are actually apprehended and 10 percent to 20 percent of drugs are seized. Therefore, in 2005, as many as 10 to 4 million illegal aliens crossed into the United States; and as much as 2.2 to 1.1 million kilograms of cocaine and 11.6 to 5.8 million kilograms of marijuana entered the United States." (LIS pg. 3)

So in just one year, if we’re conservative, approximately 4 million illegal aliens invaded the United States.  If we’re to believe the media, the year that we had only 12 million illegal aliens in our country (2005), at least 4 million came here that year alone; let alone all the years prior and the three year since.  If we’re conservative, the number of illegal aliens in our country today is 24 million based on the governments own estimate based on interviews with federal law enforcement.  This doesn’t take into consideration the surge that occurred when President Bush announced his intention to grant amnesty.

 

So when enough illegal aliens are pouring across our border each week to fill an NFL stadium, I call that an invasion ladies and gentlemen.

 

Let’s talk about what comprises that 24 million or more illegal alien invaders, what they are doing here in our country, and what those activities are costing us.

 

"The data indicates that each year hundreds of illegal aliens from countries known to harbor terrorists or promote terrorism are routinely encountered and apprehended attempting to enter the U.S. illegally between Ports of Entry. Just  recently, U.S. intelligence officials report that seven Iraqis were found in Brownsville, Texas in June 2006.103 In August 2006, an Afghani man was found swimming across the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo, Texas;104 as recently as October 2006, seven Chinese were apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas...Items have been found by law enforcement officials along the banks of the Rio Grande River and inland that indicate possible ties to a terrorist organization or member of military units of Mexico.106 A jacket with patches from countries where al Qa’ida is known to operate was found in Jim Hogg County, Texas by the Border Patrol. The patches on the jacket show an Arabic military badge with one depicting an airplane flying over a building and heading towards a tower, and another showing an image of a lion’s head with wings and a parachute emanating from the animal. The bottom of one patch read “martyr,” “way to eternal life” or “way to immortality.”" (LIS pg. 28)

 "According to ICE testimony, on September 8, 2004, ICE agents arrested Neeran Zaia and Basima Sesi. The human smuggling organization headed by Zaia specialized in smuggling Iraqi, Jordanian, and Syrian Nationals and was responsible for the movement of more than 200 aliens throughout the investigation.109 The investigation was initiated when a confidential informant familiar with the organization reported ongoing smuggling activities by Zaia, who had been previously convicted of alien smuggling. Investigative efforts revealed that the aliens were smuggled from the Middle East to staging areas in Central and South America. Once in these staging areas, the conspirators would arrange to smuggle the aliens from these sites into the U.S. or its territories.110 Members of Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terrorist organization, have already entered to the United States across our Southwest border. On March 1, 2005, Mahmoud Youssef Kourani pleaded guilty to providing material support to Hezbollah.111 Kourani is an illegal alien who had been smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border after bribing a Mexican consular official in Beirut for a visa to travel to Mexico. Kourani and a Middle Eastern traveling partner then paid coyotes in Mexico to guide them into the United States. Kourani established residence among the Lebanese expatriate community in Dearborn, Michigan and began soliciting funds for Hezbollah terrorists back home in Lebanon. He is the brother of the Hezbollah chief of military operations in southern Lebanon.

In December 2002, Salim Boughader Mucharrafille, a café owner in Tijuana, Mexico, was arrested for illegally smuggling more than two hundred Lebanese llegally into the United States, including several believed to have terrorist ties to Hezbollah." (LIS pp. 29-30)

 

Does anyone in the room believe that the Border Patrol apprehends all of the “really” bad guys?

 

How about the next set of threats?  Those intent on reconquering the southwest, a movement known as “Reconquista”.  It is lead by many anti-American groups such as the National Council of The Race (referring to latinos), The Student Movement of Chicanos from Aztlan, (known as MEChA).  Aztlan refers to the mythical territory encompassing all or part of the southwestern 9 states.  To give you a flavor about their principles, MEChA’s motto is “"Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,” which translates to “For the Race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing”

 

In case you need further convincing, I’ve brought a long a couple copies of their Constitution in which the preamble states:

 

"Chicano and Chicana students of Aztlan must take upon themselves the responsibilities to promote Chicanismo within the community, politicizing our Raza with an emphasis on indigenous consciousness to continue the struggle for the self-determination of the Chicano people for the purpose of liberating Aztlan.  The following structure will make every MEChista accountable to its chapter, every chapter accountable to it's central (where applicable), every central accountable to its region, every region accountable to its state (where applicable), and every state accountable to the national."

Would it alarm you to know that MEChA has set up clubs in many of the higher education institutions in the southwest?  They also have a militant arm known as the Brown Berets.  Let me quote from one of their recent press releases.

 

"Los Angeles, Alta California - May 1, 2008 -(ACN) "The Brown Berets de Aztlan have undertaken an active campaign to recruit more soldiers and form new chapters throughout Aztlan," said Chairman David Rico yesterday. "We will be having a series of presentations throughout the Southwest starting in San Diego on May 8, 2008," he added.

David Rico is one of the original founders of the Brown Berets in California and was one of the Brown Beret soldiers that seized and took over land in Barrio Logan in San Diego that later became, the now world famous, "Chicano Park".

In the first presentation in San Diego, David Rico and other Brown Berets will be speaking on what it takes to be a Brown Beret de Aztlan, what the organization believes in and on future plans. They will also be answering questions.

The first presentation is scheduled for May 8, 2008 from 6:30-9:00 p.m. at the Centro Cultural de La Raza located in Balboa Park at 2125 Park Blvd, San Diego.

After the recruitment campaign, the Brown Berets de Aztlan will be organizing caravans to the state of Arizona where our community is presently under siege by racists and other anti-immigrant elements. "

 

The next group of invaders are the run-of-the-mill criminals and gang members.  Here’s what our own government says about them:

 

"Many members of violent street gangs are actively involved in other crimes such as rape, robbery, and murder. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has found that approximately half of the apprehended gang members have violent criminal histories, with arrests and convictions for crimes such as robbery, assault, rape and murder.50 This figure includes only those whose criminal histories are known. Approximately 90 percent of U.S. MS-13 members are foreign-born illegal aliens and depend upon the Texas-Mexico border smuggling corridor to support their criminal operations.51 MS-13 members are involved in a variety of other types of criminal activity, including rape, murder, and extortion.52

The foreign nationals who belong to these gangs often ignore Federal immigration laws, regularly entering the United States illegally. They then travel to the nation’s interior cities to join with other gang members and participate in criminal activity. A Federal investigator told Committee staff of a recent interview he conducted with an MS-13 member who described the ease with which he had routinely traversed the Southwest border. The gang member decided to return to his native country of Guatemala to spend Christmas with his mother. To save his own money, he voluntarily turned himself into authorities and was flown home at U.S. Government expense under the expedited removal program, spent the holidays with his family, and returned by illegally crossing the Southwest border. The gang member boasted this process is so easy he has repeated it several times." (LIS pg. 16)

"The study concluded, when applied to ongoing illegal immigration at the borders, these estimates translate to 93 sex offenders and twelve erial sexual offenders coming across U.S. borders illegally per day. The 1,500 offenders in this study had a total of 5,999 victims. Each sex offender averaged four victims. This puts the estimate for victimization numbers around 960,000 for the 88 months examined in this study." (LIS pg. 25)

Other analysis performed by Congressman Steve King’s office cites FBI crime statistics and a Government Accountability Office report on incarcerated illegal aliens.  In this analysis, 25 Americans are killed each day by illegal aliens:  12 each day by 1^st and 2^nd degree murder and 13 each day by involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide (drunk driving).

You’ll notice in the materials I’ve left on the tables includes a summary of this analysis.  It also includes victims’ posters from one of FIRE Coalition’s projects called Operation Body Count which draws much-needed attention to the American victims of the illegal alien invasion.

 

Think about this analogy:  imagine if each week a Boeing 767 aircraft full of American citizens crashed into the ocean off the coast of California, yet the FAA would not address the problem effectively. Would this tick you off?  What would you do about it?

 

Since 9/11 more Americans have died at the hands of illegal aliens than in every major conflict since the Vietnam war, including terrorist attacks.

25 Americans a day die at the hands of illegal aliens, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE DEATHS IS PREVENTABLE.  And yet federal government led by men and women we elected, have not done what is necessary to fix the problem.

 

Then there is the rest of the population which the media tells us are of the “non-criminal” variety.  Let me be clear, the second an illegal alien steps foot in this country without authorization, he has broken the law.  The second time he does it, he’s a felon.

 

This variety of invaders supposedly comes here “to do the jobs that Americans won’t do” as President Bush puts it. 

How many of you believe that illegal aliens are not working in construction, hospitality, fast food, or manufacturing?  Are these truly jobs Americans won’t do? 

What the president really means is that illegal aliens come here to do jobs that the employers are not willing to pay more for, because they’ve been spoiled by decades of the illegal alien invasion ,and don’t think they should have to pay more.

 

It is as simple as this, when an employer hires an illegal alien, he pays less and we all pay more.  The money he avoids paying in taxes, workers comp and legitimate wages, we pay for at hospitals and through our state and property taxes because the illegal aliens cannot afford to (or won’t) pay for them.

 

And since the federal government is not willing to effectively enforce immigration law at the workplace, the FIRE Coalition has deployed two projects to address the magnet of jobs in America:  WeHireAliens.com and SendTheTaxman.com.

WeHireAliens.com is the largest database of public-accesible "alleged" illegal alien employers in the nation.  It has been compiled by average citizens like you observing and making reports based on reasonable suspicion.  Many of the reports are by current or former employees.  Currently there are over 4,000 employers listed from 49 states.

SendTheTaxman.com takes advantage of the most feared agency in the United States.  Think about this:  when all other state and federal agencies refused to go after Al Capone, what is the only agency that had the intestinal fortitude to do the job--and be successful at it?  That's right.  The IRS.  But did you know the IRS has a form called the 3949 which allows anyone to make a complaint about a taxpayer who is defrauding the government on their tax returns?  Visitors to SendTheTaxman.com can submit an online form with the necessary information and then either print out the form and send it in themselves or have the FIRE Coalition send them in batch.  You can also fill out a form 211 to request a reward to be paid on actionable information that leads to a conviction!

 

One of the arguments that you’ll hear from the open borders lobby (OBL)  is that without the illegal aliens, our economy would collapse.  Let me dispel that myth here and now:

 

In 2002, the Center For Immigration Studies, released a report that concluded that in federal costs alone, each illegal alien family caused a net drain on our budget of $2,700 or roughly $10 Billion dollars.  If we were to legalize them all and they could draw from ALL our federal programs, that cost would jump up to $7,700 per family or $29 Billion.  Keep in mind that was in 2002 assuming only about 3 million illegal alien families. Of course at the state and local level, we can tack on more net costs to our society.  Consider this:  in Los Angeles in recent years, 95% of outstanding murder warrants were for illegal aliens. 

Where do you think police and federal agents will spend their time?  They better be concentrating on the greatest dangers to the public!

How about schooling costs? 

 

Nationally, the costs to educate illegal aliens as of June of 2005 was $28.6 Billion.  In California that year it was $7.7 Billion not including programs like free meals and English as a Second Language courses.

 

The final blow comes from our health and welfare outlook.  From 1993 to 2004, 84 hospitals closed their Emergency Rooms in southern California because of their inability to pay for services.  The reason? A federally mandated program called EMTALA which requires hospitals to provide emergency services to anyone regardless of the ability to pay.

 

Quoting from the late Dr. Madeleine Cosman and her article Illegal Aliens and EMTALA:

“EMTALA requires each Emergency Room to treat anyone who enters with an “emergency” associated with cough, headache, hangnail, cardiac arrest, herniated lumbar disc, drug addiction, alcohol overdose, gunshot injury, automobile trauma, HIV-positive infection, mental problem, or personality disorder. Definition of emergency is flexible and vague enough to include almost any condition as requiring mandatory care. Any patient coming to a hospital emergency room requesting emergency care must be screened and treated until stabilized for discharge or stabilized for transfer whether or not insured, whether or not “documented,” and whether or not able to pay.

A woman in labor must remain to deliver her child. Babies born to Illegal Alien women are called Anchor Babies for once they are born, like anchors dropped to keep boats safely in harbor, they pull their Illegal Alien parents and siblings into lucrative residency. The babies instantly qualify as citizens for welfare benefits. They have caused volcanic eruptions in Medicaid costs and skyrocketing stipends under Supplemental Security Income and Disability Income.

What is seen is the strong-backed Illegal Alien who will come to the Emergency Room and cough, sweat, and bleed but is assumed basically healthy even though he and his Illegal Alien wife and kids never were examined for contagious diseases. By our glance and by our shrug we grant Illegal Aliens health passes. What is unseen is that many Illegal Aliens harbor within their bodies fatal diseases that long ago American medicine fought and vanquished. Now Illegal Aliens carry drug resistant strains of tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, Dengue Fever, and Chagas Disease.“

Now that we’ve clearly outlined the problems, let’s talk about solutions. 

After all, does any one in here NOT want this invasion to end?

 

There are several elements to an effective solution:

 

The first part is Attrition Through Enforcement.  This means we must return to the days of enforcing our laws.  There can be no “catch-and-release”, all employers who hire illegal aliens must face still penalties, and not just the big ones.  Imagine the effect if ICE swooped down on small-time operations with only 2 to 11 employees, and their owners paid stiff penalties and possibly faced jail time.  

 

Would any employer in the nation feel safe employing illegal aliens?  

 

They have all had fair warning and they all have the necessary tools to avoid hiring the wrong employees.  This also means that ICE begins actively patrolling the interior of our country, and not just for the “criminal aliens” despite the oxymoronic phrase.  The same effect would happen when this strategy is employed along with the worksite crackdown.  A giant sucking sound would be hear from the interior of America, because trust me on this:  the virtually the whole nation is currently a border disaster area.

 

Am I suggesting a “deport them all” strategy? No, because I think there are more cost effective ways to do it.  But I also don’t buy into the notion that it’s impossible if we needed to do it.  Some of you may have heard of President Eisenhower’s strategy to rid the country of illegal aliens.  “Operation Wetback” deported 1.3 Million illegal aliens in only 4 months with just 700 border patrol agents.  Imagine what we could do today if we chose to with more than 10,000 agents and better technology and communications!

 

The second part of an effective solution is a Border Fence that works:  both pedestrian and vehicular barriers.  One of the great shams on the American people in the last couple of years was the Secure Fence Act which promised about 800 miles of fencing.  Very little of it was even completed before Congress pulled the funding for it.  Without an effective barrier, the illegal aliens, no matter how many times they are deported, will continue to come back.  It is a critical part of any solution. 

 

Probably the most effective part of the right solution is to place U.S. military forces on the border with rules of engagement that allow them to use force if necessary to defend our border.  Since this is the largest invasion in the history of the world, let’s treat it like one and take defending our border seriously.  The president has already authorized troops on the border, but you may have heard in the last week or so that they are now being pulled away.  We have many troops abroad that could return to defend our homeland:  Korea and Germany come to mind as likely targets for redeployment.  It does no good to defend our nation only abroad when it has been established by our own government that our southern perimeter is wide open AND the enemy has been caught coming across!

 

Finally and in the meantime, until we elect representatives who will have the intestinal fortitude to truly represent our interests, we must engage our state and local leaders to do all they can.  There are tools we can employ right here in our own backyards that will help solve the problem.  A couple of examples are the Crime Free Housing initiative and the 287(g) program which Riverside County is a part of, though only in the jails.  One of our projects, Operation FIRE and ICE, seeks to assist ICE by educating local jurisdictions about the benefits of 287(g) and holding them accountable for using it effectively.

 

The Crime Free Housing initiative allows landlords to evict tenants without notice should they be found to have a criminal record.  I know there are landlords in Fallbrook, CA using this today.  Every landlord needs to be encouraged to use this because every illegal alien is a criminal.   If there is nowhere for them to work or sleep, they cannot get benefits, the United States will not look so rosy to them (it helps too, when gas is $5.00 per gallon!)

 

Part of ensuring that illegal alien invaders cannot get benefits is taking our fight to Sacramento.  I know that this is a tough battle.  I’d be willing to bet that our Republican Assembly members and State Senators in California feel helpless to help their constituents because they face a numerically superior, pro-open borders opponent in Sacramento.  Let me suggest this to all of you and them:  go on the offensive.  Their job (meaning our allies in Sacramento):  start choosing likely targets for replacement on the socialist side of the aisle.  Your job, find citizen patriots with no previous political experience to run against them.  Their job: help with fundraising.  Your job, use the power of numbers to canvas and walk precincts.  It’s going to take all of this to put a rookie in office, but that’s what has to be done.  We need average citizens who have had to live with the effects of the invasion every day to represent us.  I, for one, am done with the revolving door of career politicians.

The news politicians need to be for Principle over Party and Constitution over contributors.  Let me warn you, though, there are going to be obstacles to our success.  Mainly Complacency, Ignorance, and Fear.   Americans haven’t had to fight for something that is theirs by right for generations.  We’ve become complacent, and in the last 40 years our enemies have used that complacency to strengthen their strangle hold on our nation, politically and in the media, which leads me to ignorance.

 

The main stream media is not your friend.  I’m pretty sure none of you have heard any of the information I’ve presented to you from the major networks, certainly not all at one time.  This has allowed what I refer to as the lobster’s demise.  A lobster, when it’s cooked for a meal, is placed into a pot of boiling water.  The water heats up one degree at a time.  By the time the lobster’s dead, he doesn’t even know it because the change was so gradual. 

Remind you of something?

 

Yes, the last 40 years have been just that for America, but by educating our friends, family, neighbors, and politicians with this information, we can remove the plausible deniability.

 

The final obstacle is fear.  We have become victims of PC paralysis.  Some of us may be aware of the problem but are afraid of being labeled a “racist” or “isolationist.”  Somehow, somewhere, someone decided that to be against the invasion of your country is racist.  I’ll be honest with you, I’m an equal opportunity deporter.  I don’t care where they come from, I want them sent back.

 

So as we near the 232^nd birthday of our great nation, let’s remember the courage it took to get us here.  That courage is still being displayed today as we have brave men and women abroad fighting in defense of liberty.  Whether you agree with why they are doing it or not, they have answered the call.  Can we do no less?  If not, we are letting them down.  For me, I could not bear the thought of one of my classmates from West Point returning to ask “What have you let happen to my country while we were away”

 

As I’ve often said, you don’t have to wear a uniform to serve your country, so let’s focus on taking back the America we knew and still love.  We’re behind 40 years, but we still have superior numbers, so let us break out of PC paralysis and start right here, right now. 

One last warning, this effort will take your time, your money, and your commitment, but the alternative is to see our nation slip away before our very eyes.

 

So in closing, I encourage you to get further educated and join our fight.  The best way to do that is to join our citizens network at FIRECoalition.com.  From our website you can get much more information than what I shared with you this evening.

 

Thank you and God Bless.

I need to speak frankly about some very dangerous attitudes I continue to see exhibited by Americans today including, unfortunately, some of the same patriots involved in the fight against the illegal alien invasion.

The attitude I'm speaking of is complacency in the face of tasks which require some level of personal research and self-education. Let me share my thoughts on why I feel it is imperative that I address this issue with you now. First, a quick history lesson:

According to Thomas Jefferson's 1812 "Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States" (Jefferson's Manual) it was the practice for both the House and Senate to conduct at least three full verbatim readings of each bill proposed.

Also according to Title 1, Section 106 of the United States Code, each bill must be made available in written form to each member of Congress before final passage.

For decades now, however, our government has departed from these practices, or at least found "effective" loopholes around them. In the case of the full verbatim readings by the clerks of each house, these practices have been abandoned altogether. In the case of the requirement for written copies to be delivered to members of Congress, both houses by concurrent resolution, have allowed for passage of a bill in the final six days of a session without the bill being in final form.

These dangerous departures from best practices have paved the way for many treasonous bills and amendments to weasel themselves through Congress in the past several decades. More importantly, I will submit to you that these departures make it easy for Joe and Jane Citizen to offer up the excuses that reading the bills would take too much time, and they are just too confusing.

Yes, just the way the process has been designed.

There are only two groups of people that are truly important in this process: 1) We the People, and 2) the people we elect.

If neither of these groups are reading the bills that the Washington lawyers and special interest groups are drafting, yet lending their support and votes to the same (sometimes sight unseen), does that not explain, in part, how we have arrived to this dangerous precipice we are hanging from?

Further exacerbating this disaster-in-the-making, "white knights in shining armor" have appeared in the last two or three decades to "save us." These knights have boldly proclaimed, "Let us take this extraordinary burden from you citizens. We'll read the bills and let you know which you should support...after all, we're on the same side of this fight"

Over the years, however, citizens have just become accustomed to getting spoon-fed the "right answers" on all of the bills, further separating us from the legislative process that was designed and intended for our active and individual involvement.

It was James Madison, author of the Constitution, who said, “It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.”

Just in the past year, there have been two cases which highlight the need for me to reinforce the importance of taking seriously your personal responsibility to do your own research.

The first of which is the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088 & S. 2368). Many of you know the FIRE Coalition has taken a seemingly unpopular stance against the SAVE Act. Though the bill was touted as a tough enforcement-only bill, it amounts to another piece of feel-good legislation with a provision that gives an active legal defense to religious institutions for "enourag[ing] or induc[ing] an alien to come to or enter the United States…” Not only is this a bad idea, it's unconstitutional. You can read our analysis at http://www.operationbodycount.com/saveact2.pdf, but we encourage you to read the bills for yourselves.

The second bill that has more recently surfaced is H.R. 5515, the "New Employee Verification Act of 2008". This bill, while tough-sounding, actually has language that would nullify and pre-empt any local or state ordinances or statutes that are being enacted across the country and reserve the right to enforce anything having to do with immigration violations to the feds...and we know what a great job they're doing! We will likely be releasing a similar analysis of this bill in the days tocome, so stay tuned.

All of the preceding bills are being backed not only by the "white knights," but even some of our champions in Congress that we have come to trust based on their historical votes. This makes it even easier for Joe and Jane Citizen to throw their collective hats behind bills like these without a second thought...and feeling good about it.

The bottom line is this behavior and apathetic attitude has to stop. For sovereignty's sake, we must pick back up the mantle of responsibility for the direction our republic.

How do we fix this? It's really a very simple 2 point plan in the words of former First Lady Nancy Reagan:

1) "Reading is fundamental"--you have to read these bills yourself, and
2) "Just say No!"--Say "NO" to blindly supporting legislation

The FIRE Coalition will continue to lead by example. We will alert you to any "shenanigans" we see coming out of Washington, DC, and we'll give you our own independent analysis, but we'll expect you to read the legislation for yourself as well, and alert others to your findings.

Thank you for allowing me to address this with you today. We look forward to hearing any comments you may have at feedback@firecoalition.com.

Keep up the fight!

Jason Mrochek
Co-founder & Executive Director
FIRE Coalition
http://www.FIRECoalition.com