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9/11 Families Back Sensenbrenner in Intel Fight Leaders of a group representing more than 300 family members of
9/11 victims urged Congress on Tuesday to scrap the intelligence reform bill
because it doesn't include key provisions to secure the nation's borders against
terrorist infiltration - the same objection raised by one of the bill's leading
opponents, Wisconsin Rep. James Sensenbrenner. "No bill should pass the Senate, the House, anywhere, unless it contains
immigration reform," said Joan Molinaro, the mother of a New York City
firefighter killed on September 11 and a member of the group "9/11 Families for
a Secure America."
Holding up a picture of her son and then a picture of her two daughters,
Molinaro testified: "You allowed the murder of my son. I will not allow you to
kill my daughters."
In quotes picked up by the Washington Times, she added, "You secure our
borders, you keep my girls alive."
Debra Burlingame, a spokeswoman for the group whose brother Charles piloted
the jet that struck the Pentagon, said Wednesday that border enforcement is key
to any intelligence reform bill.
Explaining her opposition to the bill, Burlingame told WWRL Radio's Steve
Malzberg and Karen Hunter that the immigration provisions were opposed by
special interests in Washington.
"The agricultural and construction businesses who employ [illegal aliens]
have big lobbies in Washington," Burlingame said. "You have the banks, who get
billions of dollars from illegal aliens because they use banks to wire money
back home."
"The biggest contributor of all are the immigration lawyers, whose entire
income stream is derived from getting illegal aliens here and keeping them
here," she said.
Burlingame said that "tens of thousands of immigrants who come are
undocumented people who are claiming asylum, but there is no space to detain
them," forcing the release of 94 percent of that group into the general
population.
"One of the provisions that Rep. Sensenbrenner was trying to get was
additional bed space so that was can hold them pending a hearing," she
explained.
Molinaro, Burlingame and other 9/11 familles who back Sensenbrenner's efforts
have been largely ignored by the media, which has focused instead on other
victim families aligned with 9/11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean, who strongly
backs the bill.
But Burlingame blasted Chairman Kean on Tuesday, saying he was wrong when he
insisted that tighter border controls wouldn't have stopped the 9/11 hijackers.
"He should read his own report," she said.
9/11 Families for a Secure America plans to launch a radio ad campaign
praising key House Republicans for opposing the flawed intelligence
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