Enforcement broken, not immigration laws
July 10, 2009

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Lately the Iranian situation and the U.S. and global economy have distracted people from another crisis going on in our own country: the illegal-alien situation. I do not use the term illegal immigrants because the term immigrant has a legal connotation, and they are not.

People were aware of the crisis and were demanding something be done, and it was - with raids and arrests and a crackdown on businesses hiring the illegals. Most people were not in favor of just allowing illegals to stay and be legalized.


If I hear one more time the term used by Thomas Rendon of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement that we have a "failed immigration system," I think I'm going to be sick.

Our immigration system is not broken. Our immigration enforcement and legal system that are not enforcing our immigrations laws are broken. The rules for legal immigration, and the numbers to be allowed, are set. It allows immigrants with the proper papers to come to work, be educated and be naturalized.

The ones who do not follow those rules are criminals and are breaking our laws every minute they're here. Amnesty is not the answer, unless it's for everyone who breaks the law.

- Butch Kroeger, Toledo

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