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September 23rd, 2006
Dear Senator Leahy:
You ask, "What does a 700-mile barrier wall say about us as a free country?"
The answer is obvious; It says that no one is free to enter this country illegally.
You, and a number of your colleagues, insist on ignoring the difference between legal and illegal immigration.
Your statement that your grandparents were immigrants and that your parents-in-law were immigrants has nothing to do with our fight against illegal immigration.
Unless, of course, they entered America illegally, in which case they should be deported.
If they were illegal aliens, I suppose that would make you an anchor baby.
The sad fact is, that if you elected "leaders" were seeing to it that our laws regarding the hiring of anyone in America illegally were seriously enforced, we would have no need of a wall, no need for more Border Patrol agents, no need for the National Guard on the border.
If no work could be found by anyone here illegally, they would quit coming and the ones here (20-30 million of them) would go home.
It's really that simple, in spite of your refusal to acknowledge it.
However, until you do enforce our existing laws, instead of selecting which ones you want enforced, we need whatever barriers necessary to stop the present invasion of our country.
Please do your country a great favor and join Congressman Tom Tancredo's Immigration Reform Caucus and work with him to get this insanity straightened out.
We may need a guest worker program, but only after our border is secured and only if it contains many restrictions and provisions not now being addressed.
Give me a call or, better yet, let me buy you dinner at some Thai restaurant.
I would love to talk with you about this.
Richard Humphries
Elfrida, ArizonaAn ex-cop turned Minuteman, for very valid reasons.
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