Immigration
Nothing pisses me off more than our U.S. Government failing to defend our sovereign borders. We have immigration laws for a reason and we expect people coming into the country to follow them and for our government to enforce them. What we have right now is a president who wants open borders, a Senate that is refusing to follow the will of the voters and mayors/governors across the country anxious to make their cities and states sanctuary cities. That is totally unacceptable to me.
Taking it one step at a time I have been calling Senators, writing Senators and donating money to amnesty fighting organizations like Grassfire.org. I am but one person and one voter but I think collectively we are making a difference. Here is the letter I wrote to the Democratic Leadership
Dear Honorable Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,
I am writing you to express my deep disappointment and distraught with the Democratic leadership on the Bush-Kennedy amnesty bill. The people of this country voted Democrats into power in 2006 as a way to fend off further deterioration of this country by Bush. But with the Democrats willing to hold his hand while falling of the cliff, we feel betrayed. This immigration/amnesty bill is Bush’s parting gift to the activists and big business and the Democrats shouldn’t be empowering his agenda. The Democrats are using Karl Rovian tactics to pass this bill (writing bill in secret, out of committee) and doing the clay pigeon parliamentary maneuver. If the Democrats are pulling the same shenanigans as Republicans, what’s the difference?
Granting amnesty for every illegal alien in the country, who claims to have been prior to 1/1/07, opens the door to mass fraud and the lax background check provisions ensure that terrorists and convicted felons will receive amnesty. I do not believe we need such a horrendously complicated (or as Bush calls it “Comprehensive”) immigration bill. We just need a small bill that funds efforts to enforce existing laws. We were promised a 700 mile fence of which only 10 miles were built. There are already provisions to increase the border patrol force to 20,000. The enforcement provisions of Bush/Kennedy reduce the fence provisions to 300 miles and border patrol force to 16,000. Weakening the already weak existing enforcement laws does nothing to satisfy those we want America’s sovereignty protected.
The 4 billion dollars of immediate funding does absolutely nothing to change my mind. We need more like 40 billion of immediate funding and the military to get our open borders and ports of entry under control. This government has failed to implement US-VISIT and I have no confidence in it to ever implement any new enforcement measures. Let’s not repeat 1986 disaster. We cannot grant amnesty to those who have broken the law as it only encourages more people to enter illegally and wait for the next amnesty and in the meantime will distress the country with anchor babies and burdening our social services.
