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First close border, then suspend legal immigration
THE DECATUR DAILY:

Your article on 27 illegal aliens involved with drug-trafficking prompted me to reply.

The federal cost of incarcerating criminal aliens totaled from 2001 through 2004 was approximately $5.8 billion. Even though the human and fiscal costs of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks are too great to repeat, instead of focusing on border security first, the U.S. Senate passed an amnesty bill which would allow amnestied aliens to bring in 60 million more legal immigrants over the next 20 years, plus their U.S.-born children, who will consume energy, need jobs, education, health care, and many social services that any taxes that most will pay will not cover because of their low incomes.

Sen. Jeff Sessions should be commended for opposing the disastrous Senate amnesty bill. The federal government should build the Israeli-style border wall that has proven to be very effective, enforce employer sanctions and adopt a new law to make it illegal to grant benefits to illegal aliens.

We also need some sort of time-out from mass legal immigration — nearly one million a year — so we can root out terrorists operating on U.S. soil and intercept them at our borders. Congress can re-assess the situation after three years.

Alabamians should be aware that Mexico is using migration to strongly influence American policies, our future elections and eventually to extend the Mexican nation, as shown by recent massive pro-illegal alien demonstrations throughout the U.S.

Yeh Ling-Ling

Executive director, Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America

Oakland, Calif.