Italo Zanzi, acts like waving a magic wand will solve illegal immigration

Italo Zanzi, acts like waving a magic wand will solve illegal immigration

By Mary MacElveen

October 29, 2006

Not every issue is black and white as evident in this Italo Zanzi for congress campaign commercial especially when it says that Zanzi has been fighting this issue for months. In this complex issue concerning illegal immigration, this is when experience does matter. Zanzi acts like he can wave a magic wand and the issue will be solved. The commercial also states that he just recently visited the Mexican border as if that gives him credibility to speak on this topic. In the first congressional district in New York State, we do have a large illegal immigrant population. Zanzi did not have to travel all the way down to the border to prove his credibility on this issue.

Zanzi stated that Congressman, Tim Bishop supports amnesty that does not mean a slap on the wrist. What it means is giving a person a chance to become a legal resident of this country and not summarily rounding them up and driving them back to Mexico. By the way, not all illegals’ come from Mexico, but other countries as well. So, what is Zanzi’s plan on transporting them back? When I attended the debate between Congressman, Tim Bishop and Italo Zanzi, Congressman Bishop cited the number of illegals’ in this country presently stands at 12 million people.

This is where Zanzi needs to make himself clear on just how do we round up 12 million people and transport them back to the countries they came from. As evident in the response prior to Katrina making landfall, what we saw coming from the GOP led federal government was chaos and its inability to cope with that situation. Even in the aftermath, chaos reigned supreme. Now that is only one area of the country, so how will Zanzi expect the government to solve this nation-wide?

With the approval rating of a GOP led congress being lower than Bush’s, what that means is that people have little faith in their government’s ability to meet their needs. With that said and living in the first congressional district here on Long Island, I do have my own concerns since I too have little faith in this GOP led government. Does it mean federal dragnets coming into my district and summarily rounding people up? Will innocent people be rounded up in these dragnets by federal agents?

In the past, there have been incidents of violence against illegal immigrants within this congressional district in which there have been fatalities. Would such a dragnet increase the level of violence against these human beings? Will it create an environment in which it will be an ‘us Vs them’ mentality? Italo Zanzi never touched upon that as he addressed this issue at the debate.

As I touched upon it in an earlier piece concerning this debate, while he is so willing to deport these illegals, our federal government is protecting a known terrorist named Luis Posada Carriles. Why not deport him back to Venezuela where he has evaded their justice system? We are afraid he will be tortured, yet under the Military Commissions Act, Bush can decide which techniques can be sanctioned while interrogating alleged terrorists. By the way, for those of you in the first congressional district, Venezuela does not allow for torture in their constitution.

Going back to that debate between Bishop and Zanzi, I stated in a previous article of it, Zanzi was clueless when it came to the Military Commissions Act in which Bush can target anyone he believes to be an enemy combatant. So under the guise of rounding up these illegals will innocent people who Bush thinks are enemy combatants be rounded up as well? I would say that is a valid concern.

Not all illegals come from Mexico, so how do they plan on identifying these illegals? Will they use racial profiling? In a commercial for Peter King, Ed Koch proudly states that King is for racial profiling when it comes to terrorists. Is Zanzi then equating illegal immigrants as being terrorists? The majority of them are for the most part hard working individuals. They are human beings and I do think we have forgotten our humanity.

In the Zanzi commercial it points to a crack in the Mexican border. We all know that the current plan is to build a seven hundred mile fence across that border to protect this country. In a previous article criticizing Peter King I brought to the attention of my readers “As reported in this article, it states, “Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.”

How can one have a seven hundred mile fence costing billions and this superhighway at the same time? Are we missing something here? That little crack found at the Mexican border in the Zanzi commercial, if Bush gets his way will expand into an entry point four football-fields wide.

Let us also talk of the cost of deporting all of these illegals back to Mexico and other countries that they came from. How much will this program cost? This was addressed by Congressman, Tim Bishop in that debate. If this rounding up plan goes through, no known figure has been cited. It seems to me that the Republican Party just loves to spend our tax dollars.

We have already spent approximately $300 billion dollars fighting a war in Iraq. Also what the people in the first congressional district do not realize is that we are presently building a new $592-million US embassy in Baghdad. In September of 2005, I wrote a piece concerning the amount of money it would cost U.S. tax payers to build this embassy.

Italo Zanzi thinks this immigration issue deals with our security, well what about the security of Asian workers sent into Iraq to build this embassy as reported by Alternet.org? Does he even know of this?

Lastly, no border in the world will protect us from nuclear missiles as evident when North Korea just recently tested a nuclear device. It will not protect us from Russia’s Topol M missiles as they have been re-building the arms race. Both events happened under not only Bush’s watch, but this congress led by the Republican Party. Mr. Zanzi, if this piece comes to your attention, I wrote that these Topol M missiles that they “can fit a nuclear warhead and travel 6,000 miles, changing trajectory to foil any enemy interception device."

In closing, there are many intricacies in protecting our national security and not every issue is black and white when it does come to security. This is where experience does matter. We have an experienced congressman already serving the first congressional district in New York State and his name is Congressman, Tim Bishop. I say we keep him.

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