Chairman of the GOP, Michael Steele has announced on tv that he will be meeting with Republicans this week to "gather the flock" and get them unified once again. Chairman Steele has made it clear he is against illegal immigration, so now is a good time to let him know how you feel about illegal immigration, in hopes he will make it one of the issues in this meeting. Below is the link to his email and the letter that I am sending him.

chairman@gop.com


Dear Chairman Steele,

The Republicans made a big blunder in the last election because they failed to gain the support of the huge voting block of people who are against amnesty for the illegal aliens in this country. These voters either voted for a third party, or in desperation for any kind of change, voted Democrat. Many like me, decided not to vote for either Presidential candidate because of their stance on the immigration issue. I did, however vote Republican for the lower candidates on the ticket. Regardless of some skewed polling data, legitimate polls show that the majority of the people in this country have made it clear they want our borders secured, our immigration laws enforced, and are against any kind of legalization for the illegal aliens in this country. If the Republicans want to win the Congress in 2010, they need to vote with the people, instead of voting in favor of citizens of foreign countries. Contrary to what has been reported, polls show that the Hispanic vote did not determine the last Presidential election. In fact, 55% of legal Hispanic Americans are against any kind of amnesty for people who come to this country illegally.

Regardless of the lack of news by the media, illegal aliens have a devastating effect on the lives of American citizens by the tens of thousands of senseless, 100% preventable crimes committed each and every year by illegal aliens. Our schools and our jails are overcrowded, and our social benefits programs are stretched to the limit. Uncontrolled illegal immigration is forcing Americans to move out of long time neighborhoods, seeking a better place to raise their children and looking for jobs that haven’t been depressed by cheap foreign labor. Americans are frustrated because elected officials like John McCain and Lindsay Graham have thrown the legal citizens of this country under the bus. When do the American people get represented on this issue? The media has made the illegal aliens the victims here, and apparently so has our elected officials. I called the GOP campaign headquarters several times during the Presidential campaign, begging them to get Senator McCain to change his position on this issue so he would win the election. Nobody listened. This is what is wrong with this process today. Our elected officials have gotten so arrogant in their associations with special interests groups, and so afraid of insulting the open border lobbyists that they are ignoring the vast majority of their voters. If you recall, last year when Congress tried to pass an amnesty bill, the unprecedented number of callers who were in opposition to this bill, shut down the Capitol switchboard and jammed emailed boxes of our elected officials.

The buzz is already out there that there will be yet another attempt at amnesty again this year, as promised by our new President. Every Republican vote is going to be needed to stop this bill this time, and if the Republicans don’t unify against this, they will lose again in 2010, and the American people will once again be the ones to pay the price. Chairman Steele, I beg you to gather the flock, and do whatever it takes to fight this issue. The American citizens are depending on you, and they deserve a whole lot more than what they have been getting.