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More from Reader, Natasha Cooper of Indiana

March 29th, 2006 at 10:27 by MsUnderestimated

President George W. Bush
Vice President Richard B. Cheney
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Northwest
The White House
Washington, District of Columbia 20500-0003

All Members of the United States Senate
Washington, District of Columbia 20510-0001

Dear Mr. President, Mr. Vice President and People of the Senate,

I am writing you after learning that $247 million has been requested in the budget to implement a Temporary Guest Worker Program for illegal aliens in our country, while only $153 million is being requested for immigration enforcement and voluntary employer verification of worker eligibility. I urge you to reject this proposal.

With all due respect, this proposal is insane. Americans are already paying billions of dollars each and every year because the federal government has ignored our country’s immigration laws. And now you want more of our money so you can reward illegal aliens for breaking our laws? As an American who voted for you twice, Mr. President, I am appalled. Illegal aliens cost us too much as it is, and they are taking our jobs. Between the years 2000 and 2004, approximately 1.8 million jobs were created. However, the jobs held by native born Americans during that time period actually DECREASED by half a million. Jobs held by the foreign born, including illegal aliens, rose by 1.3 million. Americans are actually being displaced because our government refuses to enforce our country’s laws!! Under those circumstances, how can any United States politician promote legalizing, temporary or otherwise, illegal alien workers? You were all elected to look after your constituents’ best interests, not that of illegal aliens’.

We need our laws enforced, not ignored under pressure of wailing Latin American government officials or American businesses. Rampant immigration only benefits them. It does not benefit Americans as a whole. It is harmful for young American men, especially African Americans who are disproportionately affected, looking for entry level jobs into various industries, jobs which are being given to illegal aliens who will work for lower wages and, in many cases, for cash under the table. The massive influx of illegal aliens over the past decade has also been particularly harmful to our school children whose classes are held back because of the extra time needed to teach English to illegal alien children or children of illegal aliens. The cost to teach English as a second language alone is costing your constituents tens of billions of dollars annually.

American jobs are being taken by illegal and legal aliens in the United States. They are not simply taking jobs that Americans will not do, and this has repeatedly been proven in various recent studies. American workers have to, in many instances, compete with groups of low wage illegal aliens in various industries and jobs – construction, food service, pipefitting, and roofing, just to name a few. Making illegal aliens legal will not help those you were elected to look after – your American constituents.

This does not even take into consideration the numerous other ways Americans are negatively impacted by rampant immigration. Your constituents pay higher medical bills to cover for the costs of care illegal aliens receive but cannot pay for. Hospitals, wherein your constituents are working, are forced to close down services, costing your constituents jobs, because caring for illegal aliens has become too costly. Your constituents are paying higher insurance premiums to cover for the costs of uninsured illegal alien drivers. Your constituents are paying higher education costs because of the influx of people who have come, and continue to come, here illegally. The costs to incarcerate illegal aliens, which reaches tens of billions of dollars annually, are also paid by your constituents, an expense that would not exist had our laws simply been enforced and respected. We are seeing a resurgence of diseases once thought long gone, such as tuberculosis, in cities where high populations of illegal aliens are found. Many of these cases are found to be “drug resistant,” meaning that instead of costing the American taxpayers the usual amount for the care of a TB patient, about $2,800, these cases cost American taxpayers approximately $250,000 each. Over the past year, there has been a 25% increase in drug resistant tuberculosis cases in some communities housing high illegal alien populations. American taxpayers pay for the majority of these cases because they seem to be endemic to the illegal alien population, people who cannot pay for their treatment.

Honorable Ladies and Gentlemen, I implore you to listen to the American PEOPLE who have repeatedly asked and demanded that our immigration laws be enforced, and quit listening to American businesses or officials of any foreign government, all of whom have a financial interest in keeping the borders porous.

Creating a Temporary Guest Worker Program is nothing but amnesty in disguise, and it does nothing to confront the problems that exist. If history is any indication, and I’m inclined to think that it is, a guest worker program will only make it worse for your American constituents. Low wage earning illegal aliens, upon gaining legal status, become eligible for all those cash help welfare programs they cannot currently use with ease, though some still manage to use these programs by obtaining fraudulent documents. Illegal aliens gaining legal status via the 1986 Amnesty actually increased the number of welfare programs they used, thereby increasing the amount of taxpayer dollars spent on their care. It also encouraged more illegal aliens to follow in their footsteps and come to this country illegally. The same will happen again, at a time when our country can ill afford it, a time when our extra tax dollars should be going to support our troops, to fight the War on Terror, and to make our country secure, rather than caring for illegal aliens who have no respect for our laws and who have not been properly screened.

I urge you to reject any kind of guest worker program. A vote for a Temporary Guest Worker Program is a vote against what is best for this country, against our troops, against your constituents, and against the oath of office wherein you swore to uphold this country’s laws. For once, please listen to the American people by getting a grasp on the enforcement side of immigration, returning home those aliens who do not belong here, and stringently regulating those who come here legally. Anything else is a slap in the face to all those who supported you.

Please advise as soon as possible how you intend to vote for this proposal. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Natisha Cooper
Indianapolis, IN

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From Reader, Natasha Cooper in Indianapolis, Indiana

March 29th, 2006 at 10:20 by MsUnderestimated

Dear Senators,

I am compelled to write you after a majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to sell out their American constituents, their children, and their grandchildren by inviting in more immigrants and providing citizenship to more than 11 million illegal aliens residing in the United States.

Young, high school educated men and women have a hard time finding entry level jobs as it is, and if these measures are passed by Congress, they will face increasing difficulty in obtaining an entry level position in the work industry. From 2000 to 2003, when 1.8 million new jobs were created in this country, jobs held by Americans actually decreased by half a million. Jobs held by foreigners during that time period increased by 1.3 million. American workers are being displaced, whether the majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee wants to believe it or not, and we are angry that they feel it necessary to invite more immigrants in to please business donors looking for subsidized illegal alien workers and bullying foreign governments which derive income from their citizens in this country.

Today in our country, 40% of our lakes, streams and rivers are unswimmable or unfishable due to overcrowding and pollution. To what state shall our environment deteriorate in the next 30 years, when millions upon millions more immigrants, legal and illegal, make their way to our country, creating even more overcrowding and pollution? By refusing to regulate those coming to this country, something every country on this earth does, you have, in essence, destroyed our children’s and grandchildren’s future enjoyment of this country’s natural resources and beauty.

Ask yourself, what will be the result of making 12 million illegal aliens legal? Those illegal aliens will not become magically “richer” or self-sustaining by virtue of their newfound legal status. No, they will continue to be lower-class, low-educated, low income earners who are subsidized by the American taxpayers. Once legal, they will then be eligible for even more public assistance than they are getting now, straining our welfare system even more. Should they demand higher pay or benefits from their employers based on their gift of a legal status, they will be ignored, or be given raises only to eventually be pushed out of their positions to make way for new subsidized illegal alien workers, upon whom business owners say they “depend.” They will then feel the same anger and sense of injustice that American workers, particularly African Americans, have felt for decades.

Between 70% and 80% of Americans and naturalized citizens of all races believe immigration should be lowered and illegal immigration stopped. Should you choose to vote in favor of those immigration measures passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 27, 2006, you will be held to account. Perhaps millions of Americans will take to the streets, just as our Latino and Mexican friends have done recently. The major difference is that we will be shouting “USA, USA,” not the name of a foreign country. Our allegiance is to our country. The same cannot be said with certainty about those demonstrating in support of immigrant “rights” these past few weeks.

I urge you in the strongest terms possible to vote for immigration enforcement, and against any kind of amnesty or guestworker program which harms American workers and their wages. History has shown that giving amnesty to illegal aliens only increases the demand on American taxpayers and encourages more illegal aliens to come. Do not repeat the mistakes of the past. Americans have had ENOUGH.

Thank you.
Natisha Cooper
Indianapolis, IN

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Dear Senators,

I urge you to vote against the immigration measures passed in the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 27, 2006. We are a nation of laws, without which, there is chaos. Lack of enforcement has led us to such a chaotic point, as is evidenced by the millions of illegal immigrants living in our country.

Please remember that our system is currently unable to handle the policing of immigrants who enter this country legally. Immigrants using visas simply overstay those visas and disappear into the country. We have no way to verify that illegal immigrants are who they say they are. An industry based on fraudulent documents and identification is thriving. Chaos reigns. Inviting even more immigrants in, whether it is on “blue” cards, green cards, or visas, as the Senate Judiciary Committee seems eager to do, will only increase the burden on our overwhelmed immigration system.

Please vote for enforcement of our immigration laws and vote against any amnesty or path towards citizenship which does not require illegal immigrants to first return to their home countries. It is the only way to discourage more illegal immigrants from crossing our borders and to promote the security of our nation.

Thank you.
Natisha Cooper
Indianapolis, IN

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From Reader, David Zickefoose

March 29th, 2006 at 10:16 by MsUnderestimated

Here is mine. I plan to send it to every Republican even though it will take all night.
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The honorable Senator

Dear Sir:

As a former veteran that volunteered to protect our country and our way of life, I am unable to express my anger with the Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, who continue to ignore the people and refuse to take firm action on the issue of immigration.

What ever happened to a country founded on the rule of law. Congress shows us that they draw their huge salaries to write legislation that they refuse to enforce. When the going gets tough Congress’ solution is to just write another law, and experience demonstrates to America that there is little reason to believe you will enforce it.

We watch as 3rd world illegal alien anarchists demonstrate by the hundreds of thousands for some sort of right guaranteed by the Constitution that I volunteered to defend. They openly replace the American flag with their own, and then fly Old Glory up sided down. This issue is no longer a tipping point in the up and coming elections. You are fools if you believe true Americans will tolerate this much longer. I fear that your failure to act will result in the filling of our streets with blood.

I there for require, not ask, but require that:

1. You immediately secure the borders, with or without the military, to prevent the continuing hordes of illegal alien’s from entering MY country;

2. You take any and all measures to, immediately, arrest and deport every last one. It is not a financial issue. Merely shift some of the scheduled 1.3-trillion taxpayer dollars in entitlement expense to the effort.

If you fail to respond, we are doomed, but I, for one, will not go down without a fight.

Additionally, you will establish the validity of Cicero’s maxim, “The penalty for not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors.

Sincerely,

David C. Zickefoose

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