This year’s guest speaker began his 30 year career in the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS–Now Immigration & Customs Enforcement or ICE) in 1971.   In 1975, became a Special Agent.  He rotated through every squad in the Investigations Branch of the INS in New York City.

In 1988 he became the first INS agent to be assigned to the Unified Intelligence Division of the DEA.

In 1991 was promoted to the position of Senior Special Agent and assigned to the Organized Crime, Drug Enforcement Task Force where he worked closely with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies including the DEA, FBI, ATF, U.S. Marshals Service and with law enforcement agencies of other countries including Israel, Canada, Great Britain and Japan.

Mr. Cutler has testified before well over a dozen Congressional hearings in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.  He most recently testified before a hearing conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 20, 2013 on the topic, “Building an Immigration System Worthy of American Values.”

One of the highest profile hearings at which he has testified was conducted by the House Immigration Subcommittee on March 19, 2002 on the topic, “INS’S March 2002 Notification Of Approval Of Change Of Status For Pilot Training For Terrorist Hijackers Mohammed Atta And Marwan Al-Shehhi.”

That hearing can be viewed in its entirety on the C-SPAN video.

Mr. Cutler provided testimony to the 9/11 Commission and has testified before numerous state legislative hearings throughout the United States.He assisted the law firm retained by Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer to defend her and her state against the DOJ lawsuit in response to Arizona’s immigration law, SB 1070.

He also provides expert witness testimony at trials where immigration is at issue.

Michael Cutler appears regularly on national television programs on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Newsmax-TV, One America News Network, i24 News, NRA-TV and other national TV networks.  He also appears regularly on many major radio networks and talk radio programs.

Michael Cutler appeared in a number of documentaries and is a much sought-after speaker who participates in panel discussions and debates on the various aspects of the immigration issue on college campuses and other venues across the United States.

His articles regularly appear on the FrontPage Magazine website and in the quarterly journal, The Social Contract.  Michael Cutler also hosts his own radio program, “The Michael Cutler Hour”  Friday evenings at 7:00 PM, Eastern Time on USA Talk Radio.

His website is   http://michaelcutler.net/