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Arizonans: Keep an eye on Rep. Jim Kolbe
5/5/03 [Link added by American Patrol]
The following is from a letter [U.S. Rep.Jim] Kolbe [R-Arizona] sent me, dated March 21,2003:
"One of the guiding principles in developing this new agency (referring to the Department of Homeland Security) was that there should be no greater priority than defending the promise of America and that individual liberty and personal safety come before bureaucratic regulations, rules and red tape. I could not agree more." In a later paragraph he then goes on to say "We also must recognize that those workers (referring to illegal aliens) will keep coming--legally or illegally. That is the underlying problem we must solve. A comprehensive temporary worker program that allows non-immigrant workers to enter the country through our ports of entry and not through the backyards of Arizona would allow us to manage this cross border traffic and focus our border security efforts on criminals and terrorists."
I then submitted this letter to the Tucson Citizen, the Arizona Daily Star and the Arizona Republic, with, so far, no response from any of them [letter has not been published as far as we know]:
Dear Editor:
Congressman Kolbe told me, in a recent letter regarding the security of our border with Mexico, that "there should be no greater priority than defending the promise of America".
He went on to say "Individual liberty and personal safety come before bureaucratic regulations, rules and red tape".
Just what is this "promise of America" that is Kolbe's greatest priority? When was this promise made, and to whom?
Who made this promise? I am an American citizen and I have made no such promise.
Could it be that Kolbe feels, somehow, that America has promised the world that anyone who wishes to cross our border has the right to do so? And does this "right" negate our laws which, to make them sound evil, Kolbe calls "bureaucratic regulations, rules and red tape"?
I have written Congressman Kolbe, asking him to clarify the above statements, but have received no reply.
Kolbe knows that he can be reelected without a single vote from us down here in Cochise County.
It's up to the folks in Pima County to get him out of office and restore some sanity to our illegal immigration problem.
Richard Humphries
Please present this to the Arizona readers of the American Patrol website, urging them to put Kolbe's feet to the fire in whatever manner they deem proper.
Richard
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