Readers on Immigration

Daniel C. Arendt, Chicago, IL, 4/19/06
This article shows that the government of Mexico, although demanding the United States accept on a "red carpet" basis all immigrants, considers ALL migrants (even from Latin American countries) felons; further, that Mexican police routinely raid and round up and treat as invaders all immigrants without official paperwork. If Mexico can protect its own borders and call all undocumented immigrants felons without protest from the United States, why would anyone suggest it's beyond the pale for the United States to have equal border protection?

C. Wetzel, concerning a call he made to U.S. Senator Patty Murray 4/19/06
Senator Murray's assistant said that the senator is for a guest worker program. I said I would campaign against her if she voted for guest worker amnesty. Then her assistant asked me a question: how do we send these people home? I said, "Excuse me? How do we send them home? The same way they got here!"

Mike Maguire, Longwood, FL, 4/17/2006
I will not vote GOP again until the party deports the illegals and returns to conservatism. The current GOP is corrupt and a bunch of liars. They will say anything and then continue a liberal agenda - George W. Bush is the GOP's Jimmy Carter. I regret voting for him.

John D. Goodman, Flint, TX, 4/5/2006
How do we go about drafting one of the 100% Senators (Tom Coburn) into the presidency? The Republican Party will probably field another "let's make government bigger" guy. George Bush is the biggest letdown I ever saw. Reagan Republican? NOT.

Todd Mackiewicz, winterhaven, FL, 4/3/2006
I support President Bush's immigration plan. Nobody has come up with a better idea of what to do with those illegals already in this country. Also, I might urge others to sign the renewed contract with America but I don't support drilling in Alaska or anywhere else. We don't need more oil we need less oil! What we really need are alternative energy sources.

Gary Hyde, Agness, OR, 4/2/2006
Subject John McCain: I am a conservative, no way I would vote for this man.

Stan Marshelk, Niceville, FL 3/31/2006
If the illegals become 'legals' and start paying taxes, most of them will qualify for the Earned Income Credit. How much, in heavens name, will that cost the American economy?!

Richard H. Irish, Edmond, OK, 3/30/2006
It seems that this whole McCain-Kennedy bill is a travesty of [non]amnesty for illegals by giving them a "parking ticket", having them pay a fine and keep their jobs. We all recognize this will be an absolute disaster because we will be flooded by even more illegals while Bush has the extremely efficient and effective Homeland [in]Security people rearranging the deck chairs along the border.

David K. Fox, New Orleans, LA, 3/29/2006
Remember that migrant labor is a macroeconomic problem, not micro. A labor supply glut drives down the cost of labor. If there is a true shortage in any area, then employers will, under sound economic theory, offer premium wages, not discounted wages. Therefore, we could require by statute that every employer will be presumed to pay a premium wage (e.g. 125-150% of the prevailing wages and benefits for similar citizen employees in the same occupations) to illegal aliens, and be required to pay taxes on the imputed labor costs. Then employers of illegal aliens would be prosecuted for tax evasion when they are caught, with no stigma attached to the migrants. Why not treat corporate slave-runners like drug dealers?

Olen Eyer, Jacksonville, AZ, 3/29/2006
The Congress has passed immigration laws in the past in response to the desires of US citizens. Then they willfully did not enforce those laws. That is clear evidence of their lack of honesty in solving the immigration problem. They are in effect flooding the country with third world immigrants. They are also giving Hispanics political power that will, due to their increasing numbers, make them the dominate group in the country. In our form of government the group with the largest numbers rules.

Gary Roberts, Franksville, WI, 3/29. 2006
I have refused to donate to the Republican National Committee for the lack of a comprehensive border policy. What has happened to our nation of laws? No one has a problem with immigration- HOWEVER, IT MUST BE LEGAL. Pandering by elected officials has reached a new level. We conservatives must do more to protest such weak behavior. VOTE AGAINST THEM.

Bill Tait, Yuma, AZ, 3/29/2006
Please let me comment on this immigration issue. We are recent immigrants to this country if you call standing in line for 10 years recent. In fact, we were standing in line for so long my son turned 18 before we were granted citizenship status and consequently has been moved to the back of the line. By the way he is on his way home from Ramadi, the place CNN called the most dangerous place in Iraq, still not a US citizen. He is a Marine that fought for the last seven months for the freedom that allows our Republican leadership to cheapen his efforts by granting amnesty to the 11 million people that do not hold the same value for law and order that my son does. It is clear that our Republican Senators share the illegal immigrant’s contempt for his efforts.

The Republican leadership, those that support McCain and his ilk, has lost the moral authority to lead this party. They must be replaced. I am calling on the conservative minded people throughout the US to step-up locally and seize their county and state Republican associations. It is clear that local Republican executives have failed to fulfill their mandates.

We need a grass roots movement that will remove the old guard of the Republican Party and replace it with leadership that has the courage to fulfill its mandate. The Senate and House Republicans clearly lack the will to fight for what is right for America it is time for a change starting at the local level.

Stephen Bloch, Carmel Valley, CA, 3/28/2006
I am a strong supporter of controlling illegal immigration, including serious strengthening of our borders. I don't believe in blanket amnesty. Illegal immigration is just that: illegal. At the same it is NOT a felony--that's just plain stupid. Felonies are crimes like murder, robbery, rape, and kidnapping. It's that sort of knee-jerk "thinking" that makes me, a Devout Conservative, grind my teeth in frustration.

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