Congresswoman
Below is an email message from our congresswoman. She is continuing to perform in my opinion in the interest of the people of the US. I hope all of you are hearing much the same from your representative.SENATE AMNESTY BILL IS A NON-STARTER IN THE U.S. HOUSE
When my mother was really mad, I always heard her say "IÂm so angry, I could spit nails." Every time I hear about the SenateÂs proposed immigration bill, I think the same thing.
Some would say the Senate's recent actions show they are more concerned with immigrants than citizens. If that is the case, Senators are no longer representing those who put them in office, because those people, those voters, are citizens. Since the Senate has been stuck arguing about granting amnesty, everyday citizens have had to take matters into their own hands and help guard our borders. Because they know the House has a real border security fence included in their version of immigration and security reform, some of my constituents have sent me bricks to suggest that they go to help build a wall on our border. When constituents have to step in so Congress will do its job, we know we have a problem.
Like most Americans, I see the Senate bill as granting a free pass to law breakers. It benefits only those who broke our laws instead of those who applied to come to our country the right way. One example of why their bill should be called the No Illegal Alien Left Behind Act is because it gives aliens in-state tuition rates at colleges. The bill also counts the time aliens have illegally worked in our country towards Social Security. Our Social Security system is almost bankrupt and the Senate wants to include even more people in the system. That doesn't make a lot of sense, does it?
Further, the Senate bill allows 217 million new immigrants two-thirds of our current population into the U.S. over the next 20 years. The Senate did not stop at granting citizenship to the 11 million illegal immigrants currently in our country. Their bill also creates a huge new "temporary" legal program for low-skilled workers, which allows workers to apply for citizenship. This is not temporary, and calling it that does not make it any less unreasonable or unwise.
Our friends, parents, or ancestors all jumped through immigration hoops to become citizens the right way. These people are angry that those who snuck in through the back door will get preference over those patiently waiting in line and they are right to be angry. If Congress condones the crime of crossing our borders illegally, then what have those who have been protecting them been fighting for? If the United States does not enforce our current laws, why have laws on the books at all?
There will always be people who try to sneak through the back door, lured by the promise of work and a better life, but the 1986 amnesty solution clearly did not work and the Senate should not resurrect it. When the government tried to implement a new amnesty system riddled with fraud, the promise of a free pass spurred even more covert crossings. Today the U.S. has an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants because of the poor decisions made in the past.
Our agricultural industry needs people in the fields to stay in business, and most Americans do not aspire to work in those jobs forever. So perhaps Congress should consider some kind of guest worker program. However, when I say guest worker, I do not mean amnesty in disguise or a pathway to citizenship. I mean guest worker: workers that come to our country for a season to help employers, and then return home. It was the returning home part that never was enforced.
Yet even a temporary guest worker program should be on the back burner until our borders are secure. The key to homeland security is border security, and I cannot support the Senate plan that pits border security against a free-for-all amnesty program. The United States does not have the resources to hold back the tide of illegal immigrants that will rush through our borders. The House passed a strong bill back in December, H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, that the Senate has ignored in favor of handing citizenship and benefits to illegal aliens like free candy. While some in the media say the House bill is too harsh by making illegal presence a felony, the Senate bill is too generous in offering illegals citizenship and Social Security.
Americans should start sending bricks over to the Senate, but IÂm afraid they wonÂt mail them; they will be throwing them.
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