Posted by
Corthell on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:42:29 PM
''The problem is that there are, unfortunately, those immigrants whose presence in our country represents a threat to national security. Among such malevolent individuals are those who have exploited their position of trust in our nation that their certificate of United States citizenship represents.'' A news article appeared in today's edition of the New York Post that deals with yet another spy scandal involving interpreters who had been born outside the United States and then lawfully immigrated to the United States and ultimately acquired United States citizenship via the naturalization process.
This news report was forwarded to me earlier today by a good friend and a founding member of 9/11 Families for a Secure America, Bruce DeCell. Bruce is a former New York City police officer whose son-in-law was one of many people who were slaughtered at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. I am, as you may know, a volunteer advisor to Bruce's organization.
The news article reports on a number of interpreters being actively investigated, who are working at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as were other such spies who were discovered in 2003.
Let me, once again, make my position as clear as I can. Many aliens who legally immigrate to the United States and are naturalized are loyal American citizens. My own mother who died of breast cancer more than 40 years ago when I was attending Brooklyn College was a wonderful example of an immigrant who loved this country. I can assure you that the great majority of such naturalized citizens have a great love for our nation.
The problem is that there are, unfortunately, those immigrants whose presence in our country represents a threat to national security. Among such malevolent individuals are those who have exploited their position of trust in our nation that their certificate of United States citizenship represents. These individuals have become citizens of our nation and, because they possess foreign language skills that are of great importance to our nation and that are in short supply, have parlayed their United States citizenship and language abilities into jobs that provide them with access to our nation's intelligence and law enforcement agencies. http://www.newswithviews.com/Cutler/michael174.htm