Good letter to the editor.
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Real immigration reform
Sen. Mel Martinez needs to clean up the Senate's thrust for "comprehensive immigration reform," as laid down in last summer's legislation, S.2611 ("New RNC chief backs bill with guest-worker plan," Page 1, Friday). This bill contained a biological time bomb that doubles our population to 600 million Americans by 2110. Sens. Ted Kennedy and John McCain's legislation buried massive increases in legal immigration in their bill, and this provision was only uncovered by an outside source. If enacted, our population will increase by 100 million every 34 years. Just think about a Sunday drive around the Beltway 100 years from now.
S.2611 failed to empirically prove the economic necessity for "guest workers." There's scant evidence of the economic need for such a workforce -- something that Messrs. Kennedy and McCain have totally ignored. There's only evidence of the demand by seedy American companies to hire at the lowest possible wage rates, regardless of the consequences to unskilled American workers or taxpayers.
The solution to all of this is called "fiduciary focus" -- placing the welfare of our nation above the welfare of illegal immigrants. Every time someone like Messrs. Kennedy or McCain mutters "nation of Immigrants," red flags must be hoisted throughout our land to determine the biological time bombs and sundry ideological schemes they may have buried, just like they did with their "comprehensive immigration reform" bill of last summer.
There's got to be a limit to our elected officials ignoring the welfare and security of this great nation.

MICHAEL SCOTT
Glendora, Calif.