75 Reasons to Be Angry With Government 75 Reasons to Oppose the Senate Immigration Bill

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1 75 Reasons to Be Angry With Government 75 Reasons to Oppose the Senate Immigration Bill Lessons in Vigilance WWII v. Today s Global War on Terror By Newt Gingrich May 21, 2007 DRAFT In mid-june 1942, eight German spies landed on American beaches from submarines offshore. Four in New York. Four in Florida. They brought enough explosives to support a planned two-year effort in industrial sabotage. By June 27, 1942, all eight were arrested without a single act of destruction. Within a few days, six of these spies were executed. For similar lessons in vigilance from World War II, see Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th by Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen. By comparison today, five and one half years after the attacks on 9/11, consider the six men charged with plotting terrorist acts to kill American soldiers at Fort Dix, NJ. Three of the six had been in the U.S. illegally for at least ten years. They have been charged 75 times by the police, and not once had the police discovered that they were here illegally. (Find below the list of these 75 charges.) Clearly, our current bureaucracies in the War on Terror have failed the standard set in World War II. And now we learn last week that the White House and a group of Senators have reached an agreement on comprehensive immigration reform. This proposed agreement is a disaster of the first order and it would severely cripple America for the foreseeable future. You can tell how bad this bill is by the Senate Democrat leadership s announced goal of trying to pass it before the Memorial Day weekend. This bill has not yet been finished. Senators and their staffs were still negotiating over the weekend and many key items were still in confusion. In 1986, the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration bill promised that in return for amnesty for far fewer than three million (3,000,000) illegal immigrants we would get: Control of the border Enforcement of laws requiring employers to know someone is here legally before they hire them No more amnesty and no more tolerance of illegality - 1 -

2 The government broke its word on every one of the provisions. We eventually amnestied three million (3,000,000) people who had broken the law and we sent a signal to the world that it is OK to break the law and come to America. Now 20 years later we are told to trust Washington while we amnesty 12,000,000 to 20,000,000 more people who have broken the law. The federal government failed totally in its obligations under the Simpson-Mazzoli bill. Now more than five years after 9/11 we were saved from a mass killing at Fort Dix only because of the patriotism and courage of a clerk at an electronics store. Faced with the failure of bureaucracy chronicled below how could anyone believe for a minute that this new bill will work. It will rely on the same failed bureaucracy to produce more years of failure. It must be rejected. Date Offender Charge Jurisdiction Source 1 2/27/1997 Dritan Duka Improper Behavior/Disorderly Conduct Cherry Hill CH MC 2 3/22/1997 Dritan Duka Driving Without a License Cherry Hill CH MC & 3 3/22/1997 Dritan Duka Maintenance of Lamps Cherry Hill CH MC 4 4/3/1997 Dritan Duka Driving Without a License Cherry Hill 5 4/18/1997 Dritan Duka Driving Without a License Cherry Hill CH MC & 6 4/29/1997 Dritan Duka Driving Without a License Cherry Hill CH MC & 7 4/29/1997 Dritan Duka Failure to Possess Driver's License, Cherry Hill CH MC, or Insurance 8 7/30/1997 Dritan Duka Driving Without a License Cherry Hill 9 11/24/1997 Dritan Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While Somerdale Borough 10 11/24/1997 Dritan Duka Careless Driving (2 points) Somerdale Borough (List of charges continued on next page.) = New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission Records

3 11 11/24/1997 Dritan Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While Voorhees 12 1/27/1998 Dritan Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While Somerdale Borough 13 5/27/1998 Dritan Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While Voorhees 14 6/7/1998 Shain Duka Failure to Observe Traffic Control Mount Laurel Device (2 points) 15 6/7/1998 Shain Duka Driving Without a License Mount Laurel 16 8/3/1998 Shain Duka Driving Without a License Haddon Heights Borough 17 2/24/1999 Dritan Duka Failure to Obey Direction Signal Cherry Hill 18 2/24/1999 Dritan Duka Driving Without a License Cherry Hill 19 3/10/1999 Dritan Duka Driving Without a License Cherry Hill 20 4/2/1999 Dritan Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While Voorhees 21 4/3/1999 Dritan Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While Somerdale Borough 22 4/13/1999 Dritan Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While Somerdale Borough 23 4/23/1999 Eljvir Duka Driving Without a License Cherry Hill 24 4/23/1999 Eljvir Duka Improper Display/Unclear Plates Cherry Hill 25 5/11/1999 Dritan Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While Voorhees 26 9/4/1999 Shain Duka Obstruction of Windshield for Vision Cherry Hill CH MC 27 9/4/1999 Shain Duka Overhanging Loads- Placement/Use of Cherry Hill CH MC Red Lamps and Flag 28 9/4/1999 Shain Duka Improper Display/Unclear Plates Cherry Hill CH MC & 29 9/4/1999 Shain Duka Failure to Wear Seat Cherry Hill CH MC Equipment- Responsibility of Driver 30 9/5/1999 Shain Duka Improper Display/Unclear Plates Cherry Hill 31 9/23/1999 Shain Duka Improper Behavior/Disorderly Conduct Cherry Hill CH MC 32 9/23/1999 Eljvir Duka Improper Passing (4 points) Cherry Hill 33 9/23/1999 Eljvir Duka Driving Without a License Cherry Hill 34 9/23/1999 Eljvir Duka Exhibiting Driver License of Another Cherry Hill 35 11/16/1999 Eljvir Duka Driving Without a License Cherry Hill 36 3/2/2000 Shain Duka Obstructing Administration of Cherry Hill CH MC (plea date) Law/Governmental Function 37 3/2/2000 Shain Duka Hinder Apprehension Another Cherry Hill CH MC (plea date) Obstructs 38 3/17/2000 Shain Duka Careless Driving (2 points) Cherry Hill = New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission Records

4 39 3/4/2000 Shain Duka Possession of Marijuana/Hash Cherry Hill CH MC 40 6/12/2000 Dritan Duka Possession of Drug Paraphernalia Cherry Hill CH MC 41 6/12/2000 Shain Duka Driving Without a License Cherry Hill 42 8/2/2000 Dritan Duka Prowling in Public Places Cherry Hill CH MC 43 8/2/2000 Shain Duka Possession of Marijuana/Hash Cherry Hill CH MC 44 10/23/2000 Dritan Duka Improper Display/Unclear Plates Cherry Hill 45 12/20/2000 Shain Duka Speeding (4 points) Carteret Borough 46 12/17/2001 Shain Duka Improper Display/Unclear Plates Cherry Hill CH MC & 47 12/17/2001 Shain Duka Unsafe Operation of Vehicle Cherry Hill CH MC & 48 3/18/2001 Eljvir Duka Speeding (4 points) Mount Laurel 49 4/10/2001 Shain Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While W. Debtford 50 4/10/2001 Shain Duka Improper Display/Unclear Plates W. Debtford 51 4/15/2001 Eljvir Duka Speeding (2 points) Cherry Hill 52 6/5/2001 Eljvir Duka Driving Without a License Gloucester 53 6/10/2001 Eljvir Duka Careless Driving (2 points) Gloucester 54 6/11/2001 Dritan Duka Improper Turn at Traffic Control Signal (3 points) Washington 55 12/21/2002 Eljvir Duka Failure to Possess Driver's License or Cherry Hill CH MC 56 12/21/2002 Eljvir Duka Speeding (4 points) Cherry Hill CH MC & 57 4/3/2002 Eljvir Duka Speeding (5 points) Carteret Borough 58 4/3/2002 Eljvir Duka Careless Driving (2 points) Carteret Borough 59 1/13/2003 Eljvir Duka Driving With an Expired License Cherry Hill CH MC & 60 11/5/2003 Eljvir Duka Driving After License Suspended or Revoked Cherry Hill CH MC & 61 11/5/2003 Eljvir Duka Failure to Possess Driver's License or or Insurance Cherry Hill CH MC 62 1/12/2004 Shain Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While Debtford 63 2/11/2004 Shain Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While Debtford 64 5/8/2004 Shain Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While Gloucester 65 7/30/2004 Eljvir Duka Unsafe Operation of Motor Vehicle Maple Shade = New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission Records

5 66 7/30/2004 Eljvir Duka Driving Without a License Maple Shade 67 8/17/2004 Shain Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While Gloucester 68 9/15/2004 Eljvir Duka Speeding (no points) Carteret Borough 69 3/4/2005 Dritan Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While Palmyra Borough 70 7/26/2005 Eljvir Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While Cherry Hill 71 2/13/2006 Dritan Duka Failure to Possess Driver's License or Cherry Hill CH MC 72 2/15/2006 Shain Duka Failure to Make Repairs Cherry Hill CH MC 73 2/15/2006 Shain Duka Failure to Possess Driver's License or Cherry Hill CH MC 74 3/7/2006 Dritan Duka Operating Motor Vehicle While Palmyra Borough 75 5/10/2006 Shain Duka Driving Without a License Voorhees = New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission Records This table is drawn from an American Enterprise Institute working paper entitled America s Broken Security System: the Fort Dix Terrorists, Sanctuary Cities, and the Failure of the Federal Government s Will to Enforce the Law and Protect Americans Here at Home, by Newt Gingrich, Daniel Ballon, and Vince Haley, dated May = New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission Records