x-sender: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com x-receiver: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com Received: from mail pickup service by sc.lmhostediq.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:57:01 -0500 thread-index: AdFPzuaAE0NDIXuaT62YfOozeXAhpQ== Thread-Topic: A Response from Retired INS Agent Michael Cutler: RE: In GOP response to Obama, SC governor defends immigrants From: To: Subject: A Response from Retired INS Agent Michael Cutler: RE: In GOP response to Obama, SC governor defends immigrants Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:57:01 -0500 Message-ID: <87D1EA5BC8F2446AB25E1E0116601DA5@IQ12> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7601.17609 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Jan 2016 19:57:01.0966 (UTC) FILETIME=[E6830AE0:01D14FCE] CUSTOM LCDR Terry D. Payne Self Employed Self Employed 12 Redbud Way Bluffton SC 29910 mrsnipe@hargray.com 843-475-1100 8434751100 IMMI A Response from Retired INS Agent Michael Cutler: RE: In GOP response to Obama, SC governor defends immigrants 64.20.146.121 Hi Terry: I was very disappointed with what she (Nikki Haley) had to say. Of course it is crazy to provide illegal aliens with welfare. In point of fact, the INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) contains a provision that renders aliens who become public charges deportable. HOWEVER- the notion that as long as aliens are willing to work all is right with the system is insane. We have tens of millions of unemployed and underemployed American workers. ? Foreign workers undermine the jobs and wages of Americans. ? That is why both parties essentially share the same corrupt goals where immigration is concerned! ? Leaders of both parties accuse anyone who opposes a massive influx of foreign workers of xenophobia. We really need to push back! ? Americans who lose their jobs could not care less about the race, religion or ethnicity of the worker who replaced them!!! ? Americans who are injured by foreign criminals do not care about the race, religion or ethnicity of their attacker- either!!! ? Lies and more lies. Where both parties are concerned it is a case of "Heads they win- tails we lose!" ? As for the vetting process- there is not a single vetting process that, on the whole, has any meaningful integrity. It is not just refugees or recipients of K-1 visas. It is the entire visa and immigration processes that lack integrity! -mike- ******************************************************* ABOUT MICHAEL CUTLER Michael Cutler is a retired Senior Special Agent of the former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) whose career spanned some 30 years. He served as an Immigration Inspector, Immigration Adjudications Officer and spent 26 years as an agent who rotated through all of the squads within the Investigations Branch. For half of his career he was assigned to the Drug Task Force. He has testified before well over a dozen congressional hearings, provided testimony to the 9/11 Commission as well as state legislative hearings around the United States and at trials where immigration is at issue. He hosts his radio show, "The Michael Cutler Hour," on Friday evenings on BlogTalk Radio. His personal website is http://michaelcutler.net/. Source: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sc-governor-urges-tolerance-for-immigrants-in-gop-response/ar-CCsfBb?li=BBnb7Kz In GOP response to Obama, SC governor defends immigrants Associated Press By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press4 hrs ago WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans should resist "the siren call of the angriest voices" in how the nation treats immigrants, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Tuesday as the GOP used its response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address to try softening the tough stance embraced by some of its leading presidential candidates. The U.S.-born daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley said the country is facing its most dangerous security threat since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. That was a reference to the Islamic State group, which has taken credit for attacks in Paris and elsewhere and may have inspired last month's mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. "During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices," Haley, mentioned by some as a potential vice presidential candidate this year, said in her party's formal response to Obama. "We must resist that temptation." Speaking from the governor's residence for nine minutes, Haley did not mention the GOP presidential race. But the front-runner so far, Donald Trump, has called for deporting millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Two other contenders, Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, have battled over which of them has the tougher record on the issue. "Growing up in the rural South, my family didn't look like our neighbors," Haley said. She said no one who works hard and follows the laws "should ever feel unwelcome in this country." Haley said the U.S. should continue admitting "properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion" - an apparent reference to calls by Trump to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the country. She also hewed closely to GOP demands in the immigration debate, saying: "That does not mean we just flat out open our borders," and said the U.S. should refuse entry to refugees "whose intentions cannot be determined." The nation's youngest governor at 43, Haley also seemed to try to smooth some of her party's more combative edges. She said Republicans "would respect differences in modern families" - perhaps suggesting more tolerance toward same-sex couples - and said it isn't necessary "to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference." Without offering specifics, she said that while Democrats bear much responsibility, Republicans "need to accept that we've played a role in how and recognize why our government is broken." Haley has gained national prominence for helping to end the display of the Confederate battle flag on Statehouse grounds last year after half a century, a move that followed last June's slaying of nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Governor for five years, she also got attention after catastrophic flooding that battered her state in October. "We removed a symbol that was being used to divide us," she said Tuesday of the flag's lowering. Polls have shown public concerns over terrorism and national security have become a top issue ever since the November attacks that killed 130 in Paris and the December mass shooting by a radicalized Muslim couple that killed 14 people in San Bernardino. Ever since, Republicans on the presidential campaign trail and in Congress have been emphasizing those issues. At the same time, many in the GOP feel the party must do a better job of appealing to Hispanics and other minority voters if they are to compete effectively in national and many statewide elections. They're also eager to win more votes from women, who preferred Obama over his Republican opponents by more than 10 percentage points in his 2008 and 2012 elections and have favored the Democratic presidential candidate in each election since 1992. Haley is the third consecutive woman GOP leaders have chosen to deliver their party's response to Obama. Freshman Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, gave the address last year and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., the No. 4 House GOP leader, did it in 2014. Twenty-nine of the 300 GOP members of Congress, or about 10 percent, are women, about one-third the proportion of women among congressional Democrats. Each party also has three female governors, although GOP governors outnumber Democrats 31 to 18, plus an independent. Haley said the nation's problems also include an economy that's not boosted family income, a national debt that's too high and Obama's health care law, which Republicans have long asserted has failed. She said under a GOP president, Republicans would lower taxes, curb spending and debt and strengthen the military. Terry Payne 12 Redbud Way Bluffton, SC 29910 mrsnipe@hargray.com 843.475.1100 "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." -Winston Churchill-