Mr. Swartsell:
Thank you for your article about our endorsement of Katrina Pierson. I thought it was a fair article until I read the statement....
"Hardliners on immigration tend to label as “amnesty” any policy short of deportation, even if there are penalties, delays and assorted hoops."
I am assuming that you are the source of this opinion since it is not attributed?
Yes, the current laws do call for the deportation of illegal aliens and we oppose any change in law that would waive that current penalty as such a change would further undermine our already critical lack of enforcement credibility.
There are currently approximately 20 million illegal immigrants freely working and taking taxpayer resources in America with less than a 1% of a 1% chance of deportation and practically a suspension of all major laws designed to hinder them.
They have the backing of the most elite financial and political influences in the world including the US Chamber of Commerce, the upper echelons of both the Democratic and Republican Parties, most of the major banks, and a squadron of billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros, Rupert Murdoch, and Michael Bloomberg. These elites support the suspension of our existing border and immigration laws and that is exactly what is happening.
Most American citizens prefer the enforcement of our existing border and immigration laws and provision in the US Constitution that demands all states be protected from invasion.
Asking for adequate enforcement of our existing border and immigration laws as mandated by the US Constitution does not equate to your opinionated statement that " "Hardliners on immigration tend to label as “amnesty” any policy short of deportation"
And please tell me that you do know enough about illegal immigration to know that there is not any reasonable expectation that any promised "penalties, delays and assorted hoops" in exchange for legalized presence would ever come to fruition. Based on current lack of performance and lack of execution of our existing laws over the last 30 years since the last mass amnesty... why would you or anyone else believe promises of future enforcement?
No Mr. Swartsell, if Boehner and Obama are successful serving up amnesty for illegal aliens to their mutual financial masters, the only thing that will end will be any talk of feigned enforcement as 20 million illegal immigrants begin to dominate American politics, the next 20 million illegal aliens quickly enter the nation after being shown we have no enforcement credibility, and current American citizens endure the massive loss of live, jobs, and other quality of life degradations that will follow.
The position of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is that we want the existing border and immigration laws of America adequately enforced to establish enforcement credibility and to show that we can both deter and reduce illegal immigration and that is not a "hardliner" position. We are simply refusing to bow to the radical position being pushed on our nation by elites intent upon destroying an resistance Americans have to mass immigration or anything else for that matter.
While we would love to have you understand and better appreciate our true positions, at least please attribute your opinion statements inserted into articles as if they are uncontested facts.
Please feel free to contact me anytime if there is any question about our organization's actual positions on immigration issues and thank you again for tackling these contentious yet important issues.
Sincerely,
William Gheen
AMERICANS FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION PAC
www.alipac.us
Post Office Box 30966, Raleigh, NC 27622-0966
Tel: (919) 787-6009 Toll Free: (866) 703-0864
FEC ID: C00405878
Cc: Katrina Pierson for Congress
