Mr. President,

You recently made the following statement: "An immigration system that forces people into the shadows of our society or leaves them prey to criminals is a system that needs to be changed,". If these people are in the shadows, who were the hundreds of thousands of people, in our streets in recent days, demanding "rights" for illegal aliens?

It is a sad state of affairs, when criminals feel emboldened enough to say, I am illegal, here I am, and I want my rights, knowing that they face no real risk of being arrested for their crimes. All those people marching in our streets and cities, represent the total disregard you and Congress have shown for the rule of law and the defense of our country.

Your answer to these crimes, is to reward them with the very prize they seek, legal status. You also reward the unscrupulous employers who benefit from their crimes, at the expense of American taxpayers, who subsidize their cheap labor, with social benefits for the illegal aliens. If these illegal aliens are being preyed upon, it is by their own choice, as they chose to break our laws and to come here illegally. Their crimes don't stop at just crossing our border, but continue with the use of fake or stolen social security numbers and driving on our highways without a valid license, not to mention the 400,000 criminal illegal aliens, that the government acknowledges are in our country. Are these the "immigrants" that we want as future citizens?

Mr. President, to date, your lack of action on illegal immigration, the defense of our borders and the rule of law, has been nothing less than shameful. You are sending a loud and clear message to all Americans and indeed to the world, that with the right amount of money, going to the right people, our laws can be ignored, bought and paid for.

Here is one promise you and the Congress can count on. The American people will have the final say in this, and we will remember in November.