D. A. King addressed Madison Forum members and guests on “Illegal Immigration and all it entails” at the regular luncheon meeting April 9, 2007.
He began by separating the subjects of Immigration and Illegal Immigration. There are many proud legal immigrants and green card holders in this country.
He said immigration into the United States of America is to him, and probably for most people, is a sacred process.
Mr. King said that what we are talking about today is the fact that the President of the United States has refused - not failed - refused to secure the American borders in a war on terror. We are talking about illegal immigration and illegal employment, and the latter is the magnet for the former. He d=said whenever we talk about illegal immigration try to remember that if it wasn’t for the corporations and the employers who are committing criminal acts by hiring illegal aliens we would not have this crisis that we have at present with illegal immigration With that said there are a lot of different party views, and Mr. King made it clear he is not a member of any political party because it gives him the freedom of speaking to and about anybody of any party affiliation without allegiance. He mentioned the Libertarian Party platform which clearly advocates for “open immigration”.
Mr. King said illegal immigration is not, neither should it be, a partisan issue. Whether you are a member of the Libertarian, or the Republican, or the Democrat parties or a member of the Green Party, we have a system of laws in this country. In 1787, when Benjamin Franklin was asked what kind of a government the Constitutional Convention had created, his reply was not that we created a nation of immigrants. His reply was not that we had created a vast marketplace. His reply was that we have created a Republic. And he gave a warning “if you can keep it”. He said he feels chills on his arms whenever he says this.
Mr. King said we were told, long ago, that we have a Republic, a nation governed by the Rule of Law. His only position is now and always will be that the law should be equally applied, just like we were taught in the 60’s. We have a system of laws that says our borders should be secured against invasion. We have a system of laws that says it is a crime to enter the United States of American illegally and without inspection. We have a system of laws that says it’s a crime to hire, assist, harbor, shelter, transport, or encourage an illegal alien to remain in the United States. Those are all felony charges. Our government is not enforcing those laws, and when they do it, it is very selectively and done with the greatest amount of political show so as to create the impression of cracking down on employers or cracking down on illegal aliens.
Mr. King said it was news to a lot of people about a month or six weeks ago that Bank of America had begun to issue credit cards to people “without Social Security numbers”. He said this is not a new occurrence. The banking industry in this country has been opening accounts for, issuing credit cards to, and making mortgage loans to illegal aliens since the year 2000. One of the pioneers of that endeavor was a now former state senator named Sam Zaparipa. This man is the founding partner of a bank with three branches here in Atlanta called United Americas Bank. They are very clearly making mortgage loans to illegal aliens. Zaparipa does not deny that. He merely points his finger at banks like Bank of America, SunTrust, and Wachovia. Actually most of your large banks are doing exactly what you read about Bank of America doing. Bank of America got unlucky. They got the publicity hit. But four months ago there was a press release by a bank in California announcing their intent to go after the mortgage loan business of illegal aliens. It is a crime to encourage an illegal alien to remain in the country. The banking industry was very successful in lobbying Congress to accept the Mexican ID called the Matricula Counsular ID. It is a photo ID issued by the nation of Mexico to its citizens who are in this country illegally. The FBI Office of Intelligence went to Congress in the year 2003 and testified to Congress that the Matricula Counsular ID, the Mexican ID, was a security threat to the United States because it was so easily obtained and so easily forged so as to be unusable. They pointed out a fact, that Mr. King says he likes to point out to people, that the Matricula Counsular is not accepted by most banks in Mexico. But the banking industry in the United States was successful in convincing our Congress to not pass legislation prohibiting acceptance in this country. So what banks are doing is they are taking a Matricula Counsular card and an individual tax identification number from the IRS and issuing loans and opening accounts. The individual tax number is called an ITIN. The IRS regulations make it very, very clear that it is not to be used for any purpose other than filing your income tax. Uncle Sam wants his money. Whether or not you are in this country legally or have a Social Security number if you earn money, the IRS wants a piece of it, so it issues these ITINs. In direct violation of these regulations the banks are accepting those numbers as valid ID. He says it couldn’t be more of a set up scheme is they put a sign in your front yard explaining to you what they are doing. They are being allowed to do this. Last spring, Mr. King said, he went, at his own expense, to a seminar in Kentucky put on by the Federal Reserve in which they had invited American bankers, American bank inspectors, IRS representatives, and they were teaching bankers, while he sat there and recorded it and made a pack full of notes; they were teaching bankers the ins and outs of how to open accounts and make mortgage loans to what they labeled as “Hispanics”. Mr. King said he has a lot of Latino and Hispanic friends and they don’t need any more rules or regulations than anyone else. But an illegal alien does have some special requirements for opening, so he sat there as people from the Federal Reserve, and the IRS, and bank inspectors taught these bankers how to do this. He heard bank inspectors say, to explain what they did not want to see, break up large cash deposits into smaller bundles so it doesn’t raise any red flags when you are inspected. He heard the IRS explain that, yes it is against regulations to use the ITIN as valid identification, and then the woman drew her breath, and said but we can teach you how to use it as an identifier. Mr. King said he had a really good time at this meeting, because when they were finished he asked a battery of questions. They were very, very happy to see him leave the room, but they are still doing it. One man can make a difference, but one man fighting the entire banking industry with the complicity of the United States government; it’s just not going to happen. If your bank is accepting the Matricula Counsular and the ITIN, they are set up with the intention of doing business with people who are in this country illegally. There is no other possibility. He begged us, no matter how long we have been doing business with whatever bank we are using, even if we don’t close the account, go to the Customer Service Representative, ask to see their manual that shows what kind of ID they accept, find out if they are accepting the ITIN and/or the Matricula Counsular. He said he has gone to four or five banks doing this, and they immediately say “no, we would never do business with illegal aliens”. He said it takes about ten minutes for the Customer Service Representative, herself, to figure out what he had just told her is in her manual. So banking is important.
Mr. King said that the Madison Forum’s luncheon speaker last month wrote a column in the Washington Times last month attacking him and “draconian big government Republicans” for complaining about or raising issues with Bank of America for having the audacity to complain about the Bank of America’s doing business with illegal aliens. He said he cannot say any more about this except that he finds it incredible that the same former congressman who voted for the 1996 Immigration and Nationality Act would have problems with the United States government being even asked to enforce the banking laws.
Mr. King said that what we are seeing on illegal immigration and illegal employment is the fact that our government is not enforcing our laws and not punishing employers, is a pattern. After studying the issue for a long time, he realized very early on that there is more to this than somebody getting their lawn mowed for $5 an hour, or having a steady supply of $10 an hour busboys and dishwashers. Something is happening that we are not being told about, and he did a lot of research. There is a very concerted effort to, if not erase, at least eliminate the importance of the borders between the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Borders are expensive. Right now we have about two to three million people crossing our borders illegally every year. There is a pattern here. Mr. King said he is going to shift his efforts from just talking to state and federal legislators about illegal immigration, and he is going to start, starting next month, pointing out to them things they should already know. The effort is this – borders and the tariffs that they create add a needless expense in the minds of corporate America and the globalists in this world. If you can eliminate the delay and the cost of, for example, going from southern Mexico to Chicago, you will have added between 11% and 15% to your profit margin. If you can create the free flow of goods, services, and people you will have not only eliminated those tariffs, but you will have created a free movement of people from places in which they make less than half of what we make here and many cases less that 10% of what we earn here. You can have a never ending unimpeded supply of tax payer subsidized labor. Right now we have that same process, but technically it is an illegal process. It is a crime to come from southern Mexico, for example, or Guatemala, or Ireland and come to this country and work without authorization. The goal is this – to create the free movement of goods, services, but mostly of people. He said this is not something he invented, but something he learned from reading what’s out there. He showed a document put our by the Council on Foreign Relations titled “Building a North American Community”. He said we are going to start hearing the term “North America” over and over again until it rolls through the mind without even thinking about it. He said when he grew up we heard about the United States or America, because it was our country. People are trying to create “our continent”, the ”North American” good, the security of “North America”, the prosperity of “North America”, a “North American” family, the citizens of “North America”. He said the publication is not very exciting reading, but it is very educational. He said on member of the Council on Foreign Relations is a man by the name of Robert Pastore. Pastore is everywhere. He used to teach at Emory. His book, which came out pre-9/11 in 2001, is called “Toward a North American Community”. He said you can download the book from his website. He said you can also read testimony of Robert Pastore to the United States Senate, June 5, 2005 in which he told a committee “what we need to do now is to create a North American Community”. He will tell the Senate. He will tell anyone who will listen that we have to create a free flow of goods, services, and people. Mr. King said this is what he is going to begin to devote his time to. He said their may be people who haven’t heard of this and think he is crazy. He doesn’t care. He said we are losing our country one little bit at a time, and the quicker people realize the true goal, the better off we will all be.
To get the idea across he called it “connect the dots” because that’s how he got to this, how he learned this. One dot – right now there are border patrol agents risking their lives all over our northern and southern borders trying to keep people from walking into this country from all over the world. Not just from Mexico – from Iraq, from Indonesia, from Islamic countries who mean us harm. He went to the southern border with Chip Rogers and several other legislators. When you actually see a border patrol agent chasing ten illegal aliens, you realize that we are prosecuting less than 2% of the illegal crossers, and you have to ask yourself “why”. A lot or people want to hear about the costs of illegal immigration. He said he doesn’t care. If one dollar of tax payer money is going to one person who is not eligible for that tax dollar, it’s too many. But a study came out last week that said that each illegal alien will cost about $22,000 a year, a million dollars from United States taxpayers in his lifetime. There is another side to this. Illegal aliens are less than 5% of the labor pool in this country. People are trying to change that. It they can make that cheap labor legal and then make it maybe 50% of the labor force in this country, they will have saved a lot of money. Another dot – illegal aliens on average are arrested six times in this country for whatever charge you can think of before deportation proceedings are ever begun. After those deportation proceedings are accomplished they are then many times released on their own recognizance because we have an extensive appeal process. Right now the dot is there are about 600,000 criminal illegal aliens convicted of any crime you can think of from child molestation, to drug dealing, to homicide running the streets of America because we don’t have the manpower to pick them up. Another dot – Border patrol agents stand a better chance of going to prison in this country for doing their jobs than drug smugglers who are illegal aliens, drunk drivers who kill Americans who are illegal aliens.
The people who are creating this call it the “North American Community”. Its goal is the integration of the three countries in North America to create the free flow of goods, services, and people. In case he is not believed, Mr. King quoted an Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial on September 7, 2001.
“The ultimate goal of any White House policy ought to be a North American economic and political alliance similar in scope and ambition to the European Union. Unlike the varied landscapes and cultures of European Union members, the United States, Canada and Mexico already share a great deal in common, and language is not as great a barrier. President Bush, for example, is quite comfortable with the blended Mexican-Anglo culture forged in the border states of Texas, California and Arizona.”
Mr. King said he has shown this to Senators, Congressmen, and many others in many places. Most people cannot accept this. We are programmed to accept what is main stream and what we have heard on the news. Our very survival as a nation depends on our own grasp of reality. We have to do some research on our own.
Mr. King said the clincher for him is Federal Legislation in two bills. Last May he sat in his office and watched CSPAN as the United States Senate voted to create another amnesty for illegal aliens. We had an amnesty for illegal aliens in 1986. We were told in 1986 that the answer is to make these illegal aliens legal, and then the government promised to begin to sanction the criminal employers. And then they were going to secure our borders. 21 years later we now have in this country in excess of 20 million illegal aliens. We are now being told that if you will let the government legalize these illegal aliens it will then begin to sanction the criminal employers, and it will then secure our borders. Does that sound familiar? This is the language from last year’s Senate Amnesty Bill S2611 in which it talks about visa coordination between the three countries. It talks about the progress made by Canada, Mexico, and the United States to enhance the security of North America, and exploring methods for Canada, Mexico, and the United States to waive visa requirements for nationals and citizens of the same foreign countries. It means that if you are a Mexican or a Canadian you don’t need a visa to go into or out of the United States. It is the free movement of people. It is a loss of control of our borders. That is a loss of our sovereignty. That is the loss of our Republic. The same language is in this year’s Flake-Gutierrez Bill. He asked everyone to call their Congressman and ask when he is going to speak up against this language. He said this is the smoking gun. There is a resolution in Congress called HCONRES40 that Congressmen can sign on to and say they oppose any concept of creating a free slow of goods and services across our borders, erasing our sovereignty, or the free movement of people. Mr. King said it is a borderless continent they are going for and he hopes we will look into this, make the people who are in charge of our government look into this, and demand a position on it from everybody.