Helen Krieble must think Americans are stupid. Her "Red Card" solution is nothing more than a red herring in that it presumes we've been living in a bubble without Passports, VISA's, guest-worker programs, etc... "Legal" foreign workers already have "smart card" identification documents available to them.

In her "Red Card" talking points brochure, Helen Krieble says "Don't: Use the term 'guest worker." Helen wants us to use the term "temporary." That way, maybe we'll forget we already have numerous "temporary" guest-worker programs for "legal" migrant workers and businesses to utilize.

Helen's approach preys on the gullibility of the American People. Newt Gingrich, FreedomWorks, FOX News, Heritage Foundation, and others think we've forgotten the 1986 amnesty that was supposed to 'solve' our illegal alien problem, that did nothing of the sort. In fact, our illegal alien population has done nothing but skyrocket.

Newt suggests we create a new bureaucracy to "vet" illegal aliens who've been here 25 years, and if they've managed to avoid being caught, that we should let them stay. Hmm... if a foreign national has been in the United States illegally for 25 years, then they were in the U.S. when the 1986 amnesty was passed. An effort to make this particular demographic of illegal alien invaders "legal" has already been tried. So we now need an 'amnesty' for those who didn't take advantage of an 'amnesty' 25 years ago?

What national secuirty benefits will a "Red Card" yield that the current passport and worker VISA government documents do not? Are not foreign nationals working "legally" in the United States already required to carry their government-issued, biometric-laden VISA with them at all times? Of course they are.

This "Red Card" shell game is simply another attempt to grant amnesty to illegal alien invaders. I find it laughable that the Gingrich / Krieble "Red Herring Card" proposal is being touted by FOX News analyst Linda Chavez as a wonderful thing. Ms. Chavez runs Pilgrims Pride, the nation's largest poultry producer, which has been reported numerous times to FIRE Coalition's WeHireAliens.com project for allegedly hiring illegal aliens.

Poultry farm workers 20 years ago were making $18-20 per hour. What's the average now? $10-12 per hour.  How does that non-living-wage help legal workers in a 1st World economy reach the American Dream of home ownership, a better future for their kids, etc...? Who benefits from importing cheap 3rd World labor? People like Mrs. Krieble, who doesn't want to pay a living wage to have her horse stalls mucked and raked. Who else benefits? Well, people like Ms. Chavez and Pilgrim's Pride benefit, as they no longer have to pay a living wage and can boost their profits by creating a perpetual under-class of 3rd World workers, driving down the prevailing wages of Americans and legal immigrants in the process.

How much campaign money has flowed into Newt Gingrich's campaign from "the machine" that collects 30 pieces of silver for kicking the legs out from under the America Dream? Ms. Kriegle pretends to have a solution... and she does, if your goal is to reward illegal behavior, to reward businesses that knowingly hire illegal alien invaders instead of Americans at a living wage, if your goal is to avoid talking about the tens of thousands of Americans who've died at the hands of illegal aliens just since 9/11/2001, if your goal is take illegal immigration and border security off the third-rail of politics heading into yet another presidential election.

There is no check or balance to immigration (legal and illegal) when the only discussion is 'what do we do with the millions that are already here?"

And there is no solution if those 'red herring' proposals are the thruxt of the conversation. Businesses that don't feel they can be competitive because of overhead, (which includes labor), shouldn't be looking at increasing the flood of cheap 3rd World labor to reduce their overhead. They should be looking at the tax burden and oppressive government regulations. If they care about national security or the standard of living of their work force, they should be screaming for enforcement of our existing immigration laws.

40% of illegal aliens in the United States came here "legally" under "temporary" conditions, as "guest workers," or "students." Without enforcement, including employer sanctions and stiff penalties for knowingly hiring illegal aliens, phony solutions like the "Red Herring Card" will only serve to give career bureaucrats like Newt Gingrich a pass for their failed policies, and failed solutions.

"Attrition through enforcement" of our existing immigration and employment laws, full implementation of the U.S. Visit Program, the elimination of job-killing "free trade agreements," and the elimination of the VISA-Waiver Program that allows tens of millions of un-vetted foreign nationals to pour into the United States each year will go a long ways toward solving many national security, job security, and American Dream security issues.

The only mass-deportation that FIRE Coalition supports is the removal of career traitors from public dis-service, and the immediate removal from office of ANYONE that refuses to uphold their oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution. Article IV, Section 4 guarantees us "protection against invasion," and yet, people like Ms. Krieble, Newt Gingrich, and Linda Chavez think we should just surrender to America becoming just another 3rd World banana republic, ruled by the "whims of men" instead of the rule of law. They do this not out of any sense of loyalty to America, but for personal, political, or financial gain.

For most Americans, gone are the days when "one bread winner" could raise a family in the United States, while the other spouse could oversee the home and raise the kids. The middle class in America is disappearing from the landscape. Excessive legal immigration into the United States (more than the rest of the world combined), and unabated illegal immigration are destroying America's future. The "shining city on the hill" that Reagan talked about is becoming a dingy, balkanized, 3rd World slum, where elitists career politicians, controlled by big business profiteers and special interest groups NEVER tell the truth, and the mainstream media, funded and fueled by these same hucksters, propagate the lie on a daily basis.

Lastly, Gingrich suggests the children born in America of these "temporary" (guest) workers won't get automatic U.S. Citizenship. Really? Does that mean that former Speaker Gingrich is ready to admit that the 14th Amendment, Section 1 prohibits such anchor-baby birthright citizenship already?

Does that mean the former Speaker Gingrich believes Senator Bingham and Senator Howard (who wrote the 14th Amendment, Section 1) may have known what they meant when they required a person to be "subject to the the jurisdiction" of the United States, and not simply "under" the jurisdiction because they were here "temporarity?" Read what the man who "wrote" the citizenship clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment had to say, directly from the floor debate in the U.S. Senate here: http://rejoinordie.com/docs/NoAnchorBabies.pdf 

Slick-tongued devils in think tanks inside the Beltway, and political weasels are hoping you are a bunch of suckers, susceptible to every carnival barker and snake-oil salesman that comes along. And when you see the term "smart" attached to ANYTHING coming from the government and these think tanks, remember this: Smart Power, Smart Cards, Smart Grid, etc... are ALL talking points and catch words for U.N.-based globalists agenda items that are Hell-bent on destroying liberty, private property rights and ownership, and the destruction of the American Dream for America's Posterity.

Go check out the "talking points" at the "Red Herring Card" web site. See for yourself which think tanks and political operatives are playing the "amnesty shell game" and ignoring the "Supreme Law of the Land," the U.S. Constitution.

Thanks, but no thanks, Speaker Gingrich. You are not part of the solution. You are part of the problem.

Thanks, but no thanks, Ms. Krieble. Pay your muckrakers a living wage, and you won't need to import 3rd World labor. Your "Red Herring Card" is full of horse hockey.

Thanks, but no thanks, Ms. Chavez. Pilgrims' Pride, which has a repeated history of allegedly hiring illegal aliens at 3rd World labor rates, and driving down the living wage of poultry farm workers,  should be called Pilgrims' Shame. Your approach only further exaserbates the middle class, separates parents from their children by forcing them to work two and three jobs, and encourages more illegal alien invaders to come to America.

And FOX News, if you want to claim to be "fair and balanced," skip the self-agrandizing segments with the Media Research Center's Brent Bozell that attack other media outlets as being biased. You have no room to talk. Did you tell your viewers that Ms. Chavez had a special bias and special interest in promoting the "Red Herring Card" solution? Of course not. 

Did you tell your viewers that only 4% of illegal aliens work in agri-business? Did you even mention the national security implications of a failure to enforce our immigration laws? Have you even once reported on the hundreds and hundreds of illegal aliens who've attempted to gain access to U.S. military, nuclear power facilities, and other sensitive national security installations in just the past five years, as reported in the FIRE Coalition's "Shaw Incident Report?"

Have you once talked about the tens of thousands of American citizens killed over the past 25 years since the 1986 amnesty, or that there's a resolution by Rep. Steve King to recognize Nov. 6, 2011 (the 25th anniversary of the 1986 amnesty) as a "National Day of Remembrance" for the victims of illegal alien crime?

Has FOX once discussed or interviewed Rep. Walter Jones about H.R. 3168, "The Illegal Alien Crime Reporting Act," a bill by the way, Congressman Jones has introduced at our request for the past three Congresses?

Did FOX cover the FIRE Coalition press conference held on Capitol Hill on Nov. 3, 2011 at which Reps. King and Jones talked about their respective resolutions and bills, or that victim's families talked about the tragedy that befell their families as a result of failed immigration law enforcement? Visit Operation Body Count to watch the videos of that press conference.

You can't say you didn't know. That would be a lie. I personally stuck the press release and background information in the hands of FOX producers on Capitol Hill.

Let's have an honest discussion about immigration, guest-worker programs, border security, etc... Any time you're ready. FIRE Coalition experts aren't in the tank for special interest groups, the U.N., the Chamber of Commerce, and career politicians. We support the U.S. Constitution, the rule of law, and an immigration policy that puts Americans and American Jobs FIRST. 

We need a "New Direction for America," one that hinges on restoring Constitutional governance, attrition of illegal alien invaders through enforcement of our immigration laws, and an end to such ridiculous "red herring card" amnesty proposals that former Speaker Gingrich is trying to sell.

Jeff Lewis, PatriotWatchdog

National Director, FIRE Coalition

National Director, Patriot Coalition