Letters to the Editor: In Response To Mr. Swift

The following letter was submitted by Thomas Folgert, in response to 

Dear Folks,  

The illegal immigrants are not caught up in a bureaucratic backlog. By definition, they are here without authorization. They jumped ahead of the line by coming in illegally, or overstayed VISAs.

Isolationism? Over the last 10 years the country has allowed over 10 million legal immigrants with the number for 2008 alone at 1,107,126 people. Then, you can add 400,000 babies born to illegal aliens each year or 4 million per decade. 

Hardly unfair to would-be immigrants, legal or illegal, but unfair to American citizens who have to foot the bills. What about the 17 percent of Americans who are unemployed or underemployed? They don't need any competition from legal or illegal immigrants.  

You don't speak about national sovereignty, either. Why don't the American people through their elected representatives in Congress have the right to select who gets in each year and how many get in? Why don't I have a right to think that the federal government will enforce our immigration laws, day in and day out, year in and year out?  

The political class doesn't want to do anything about illegal immigration. George W. Bush did virtually nothing to stop it for eight years, during which the majority of the illegal aliens got in.  

Illegal immigration is either going to be severely reduced, or the national sovereignty of the U.S. is going to disappear and very quickly. There are 150 million would-be immigrants in Mexico and Central America alone, some of whom will keep coming up here every year. We don't need to and cannot reward them for their illegal behavior.  

It's a relatively simple issue if enforcement is done at workplaces on a consistent and continuous basis. One of the major problems here is that an entire industry exists in order to gum up the works of enforcement and deportations. That's before you get to Sanctuary Cities and Colleges, etc...  

Sincerely,

Thomas Folgert

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