INS reconfirms own ineptitude

Counsel for the US Immigration and Naturalization Service has testified before the US Senate Energy Committee rationalizing why a federal takeover of immigration had to be effected here. It’s a good rationalization that is bogus at best, a sterling demonstration of ineptitude at worse. If I may explain:

We’ve sufficiently read of the inefficiency, if not, ineptitude of the INS in handling the southern border of our country. We’ve also read with awe how some of its most trusted servants have engaged in illegal fabrication and issuance of US Visas to foreigners for exorbitant fees.

Yet, it has the gall to justify additional responsibility of an open border. Counsel asserts that US security issues are at stake in the region. This, sir, is rightly the purview of both the US Departments of State and Defense. INS has no business attempting to build another layer of government just to engage in another spending spree of hard-earned taxes by US mainland taxpayers.

It would seem to me an infringement of the fiduciary responsibility of the State and Defense Departments by an agency who can’t even figure out its rear or front door. Such view apparently subscribes to Interior’s OIA’s employment of private spies (at US taxpayers expense) to prop-up its case only to be told by the US Department of Justice that the dirt they’ve scrounged up is useless because they are “unverifiable”.

The Tinian Tent City experience demonstrates in glaring fashion INS’s inability to act swiftly in defraying the cost of maintaining the boat people. We had to spend our resources (however financially strapped our local government) which was reimbursed this week.

Let’s assume that INS is given the legal responsibility to patrol our open waters. It could very well mean that it too must ask for millions of US taxpayers contribution to build a fleet of patrol boats, manpower, and field offices between the CNMI and Guam. At best, it’s a case of supplanting the roles of the departments of state and defense.

INS is also mindless of the impact of imposing US immigration laws in the CNMI. It is a sure ticket to bringing to bankruptcy the only economic sector that scaffolds the coffers of these isles–apparel manufacturing. The cost of bringing in foreign workers to staff this industry would have increased fees substantially as to shut it down completely sending the more than 3,000 plus non-garment workers in the industry to line-up at the Nutrition Assistance Program’s Office. It would have forcibly reverted our livelihood two to three decades. It’s a scheme to bring, if I may reiterate, helplessness so designed to turn the CNMI into a permanent ward of US taxpayers! What grand scheme to ruin our freedom as US Citizens!

Equality: For favorites only?

Equality is a foreign term for third string federal bureaucrats. They advance such incoherent views to justify its consistency in denying the CNMI equal application of federal laws such as the industry wage in American Samoa.

It’s a sterling case of overlooking the very principle of equality that must be allowed to set-in although we boast the grand title of the only US Citizens who aren’t represented in the US Congress.

It’s another subscription to the Stayman position of denying the CNMI its share of impact of the compact funds to grant his favorite territory of Guam what’s rightfully ours. I mean, every which way we turn there’s this asinine agenda to bring us to our knees even if it means compromising the democratic process. Is this rudimentary issue so difficult to understand? This attitude of insensitivity and arrogance has us thinking if this is in fact the reality of American Democracy. Is it?