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Open Letter to President Bush
President George W. Bush
December 21, 2004 (Posted 12/22/04)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500Dear President Bush:
I am amazed at how out of touch you are with the reality of the border situation when I hear you say that a guest worker program "will make it easier for us to enforce our borders."
It infuriates me that you would suggest that the 10-12 million (or perhaps more) illegal aliens currently living in the United States are here to "do jobs that Americans will not do."
There are currently 14 million Americans who cannot find full-time work. In addition, there are also millions of Americans who are working full-time who are near or below poverty level. How do you think they feel about your suggestion that there are jobs they won't do?
Your guest worker plan is primarily aimed at workers who are lower skilled workers. But we don't have a shortage of lower skilled workers. If we did, then lower skilled workers would see their wages rising.
I simply do not understand why you believe that there is such an urgency to legalize millions of lower skilled illegal aliens and bring in more foreign workers.
Could this be because your big business buddies are demanding this cheap labor?
Do you really believe that once these jobs are filled by your now legal workers, the millions of people still on the other side of the border looking for a better life will cease sneaking across?
If you could stop them from so doing, why don't you stop them now?
And, who do you think will then be hired to do the jobs Americans won't do? Your legal workers, or this new hoard of cheap labor willing to work for even less than the ones fortunate enough to have made it across first?
Also, how are you going to insure that the employer has actually made a sincere effort to find an American, who he would have to pay more, to fill the job before he hires one of your new "guest workers?"
In your latest press conference you used the phrase "jobs that Americans won't do" five times.
President Bush, there are few, if any, jobs Americans won't do, if paid a decent wage to do them.
Will you please provide us common folk, those of us who just don't see your "big picture", with a list of those jobs?
Sure, people are coming here to put food on the table but how about the millions of Americans who used to do jobs in construction, meatpacking, farm labor, janitorial services, restaurant and hotel work and other trades who would like to put food on their tables?
While these guest workers work away at these jobs that Americans just won't do, how do you propose to pay for the education of their children, the health care for the families and all the other services that their families will require?
What really scares me is your avowed plan to allow them to freely go back and forth across our border, bringing their families with them while they do those jobs Americans won't do.
Don't for a moment forget our insane law that decrees that every baby born here is automatically an American citizen.
Now, as a result of this "anchor baby" law, we will have additional millions of Americans that just won't do those jobs.
You say that the system we have today is not a compassionate system, but your concept as to how to make it compassionate, by throwing open our borders, ignoring our national sovereignty and turning a blind eye to the consequences of such a system is far from showing compassion for your fellow Americans.
Please heed the wishes of the majority of American citizens, those individuals you swore to protect, and drop this concept of a guest worker program, a program that will only do great harm to America.
A very worried and angry ex-cop now living 30 miles north of the new gateway into America,
Richard Humphries
Elfrida, ArizonaP.S. Congressman Tancredo told me "Securing the borders is a philosophical problem for the President. He is an "open borders" guy, and that's just it.
And that just scares the hell outta me. In your misguided "compassion", you are ignoring the future of America and the future of our children and grandchildren.
That, in my opinion, is traitorous, not compassionate.
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