A Letter to My Senator about the Illegal Immigration (Amnesty) Act

To the Honorable Senator Debbie Stabenow,

Please do what ever it takes to kill The Illegal Immigration Act. What I as your constituent would like to see is that we as a Nation do is to enforce our current laws, and stop the flood at the border. This needs to be done first. Completing the fence, hiring more Boarder Patrol Agents, and increasing the funding to the Boarder Patrol can accomplish protecting the boarder.

The Immigration Law needs to incorporate the protection of the Boarder Patrol Agents in using deadly force. I understand that there are two agents that have been sent to prison for shooting an illegal immigrant involved in the drug trade and presented a gun. Agents like this should receive accommodations, not sued or sent to prison. The agents must be allowed to protect them selves. The criminals should not have more protections or rights than the agents that are protecting my family and yours.

As to the illegal immigrants, these people should not be rewarded with citizenship or a permanent visa. They should be treated as a criminal. The current laws need to be changed to not give citizenship to children that are born in the United States by parents that are here illegally. Enforcement should be placed upon companies that employ employees that their Social Security number does not match their name. Enforcement must be increased on companies employing illegal immigrants. We do not need to deport the illegal immigrants, if we dry up the jobs they will leave on their own. We already have the laws in place, we just need to enforce them, not make more new laws.

As to the argument that the illegal immigrants are the only ones willing to do jobs the people that are here legally are unwilling to do, is a total lie! The truth is that the illegal immigrants are the only ones willing to do the job at the low wages the employers want to pay. There are people willing to do the jobs, just not such a low rate of pay.

If the United States of America wants to help our third world neighbors to the south, help the countries stop the corruption in their governments. The corruption in Mexico and all of our neighbors to the south is the cause of the utter poverty, not the greedy corporations. I speak of this on personnel knowledge from working in Mexico for a major tier one automotive supplier for nearly a year.

The enforcement of our countries immigration laws will help our country in many ways:

• I will decrease our healthcare costs of illegals showing up in emergency rooms for health care.
• It will also decrease our welfare costs.
• It will free up the classrooms and reduce the demand for bilingual classes.
  

Once this bill is killed, and funding is provided and put in place to secure our boarders, then this country can start working on a new LEGAL IMMIGRATION Act. The lack of security of our boarders this long after 9-11, is a shame of all the politics in Washington DC.

Sincerely yours,

Piet Van