Response to Immigration is a human rights issue
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I find your April 2 "Immigration" opinion piece to be offensive and disingenuous. There is no remote comparison between the Holocaust or the American Revolution and the current United States' crisis involving illegal aliens.
The US government, including state and local governments, has a responsibility to enforce all laws and to protect its citizens from illegal aliens who overwhelm our health care system and ruin our job markets. And your citation of an obscure Harvard sociologist's piece which lumps illegal and legal immigrants together is pure nonsense. Ask yourself why US Department of Justice statistics show federal prisons today with at least 20 percent of the felon inmates to be illegal aliens? Why are California's prisons in crisis with nearly half of the felon inmates being illegal aliens?
If morality is truly your guide then I invite you to move to Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador or Mexico, etc. and get involved in addressing the problem that you are so outraged about. I am not without concern for the suffering of people, however my concern is first for the suffering of fellow Americans, the ones whose help from the government is being attacked and the ones whose ability to find an honest day's work for an honest day's pay is being undercut by a flood of laborers willing to work for far less an hour because they are accustomed to living with as many as five families in a one family residence.
Let’s get focused on what we need to do to have an impact on this situation, we need to enforce our laws and thereby nullify our illegal alien crisis.
What we absolutely don’t need are more local politicians who are willing to pass the buck and do nothing to address the issues that face their community by calling this a national immigration policy issue. This is a local issue that impacts members of our community and as long as we have brave people like Steve DeBenedittis willing to stand against the vocal minority and say “I will do something” we have a chance of preserving our way of life.
Your statements about bigotry and paranoia are in themselves the very vitriolic rhetoric that you claim to be against, intending to color anyone who stands for and by the rule of law as a frightened racist who is anti-immigration. In fact you will find that most of those that you oppose are pro-immigration because we understand that our nation is a nation of immigrants. It is they that are dishonored by every illegal-alien who is granted amnesty.
You sir are transparent, you have written an opinion piece with the intent of hurting the campaign of Mayor DeBenedittis, I believe that you could well have helped him win by reminding people how much he has done for Herndon and her legal residents.
Spike Williams
Herndon
Excellent letter!
Posted by herndonnow
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