Thread: Letters on immigration to the Seattle Times

Letters to the Editor:

The problem is INS

It is apparent to me The Seattle Times is not listening to the people ["Dream deferred, Congress to blame," Times editorial, Oct. 30].

We the people have spoken and spoken loudly on illegal immigration: We will not tolerate it. We should not be held accountable for those who have chosen to bring their families here illegally. Those who knew of the consequences when they made a conscious decision to cross the border knew at the time, if caught, they could be sent back.

I know this affects their children and I also know we need to do something to fix this mess, but let them all go home and resubmit for access the right way.

The problem is the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The provision in the law that makes it take 10 years to enter the country needs to be revised. Our borders above all must be secured.

The media create more of a furor than a solution. Had the media acted on the need for good border security and change in archaic policies in the '70s and '80s, illegal immigrants would not have been coming here by the semi-truckloads.

With most of the illegals being hardworking and honest good people, shouldn't there be a streamline in INS policies — one that would permit those who are free of criminal records to enter the system for admission more quickly?

Seattle Times, get real — the people have spoken, they do care, but they also want the nonsense in government to cease and get the job done.

— Rick Spence, Newcastle

What the kids get

Shame on illegal immigrant parents for disrupting their children's lives and putting them in limbo. Children are not to be paraded about and used by their parents for their own citizenship or by politicians looking to further their political careers at their constituents' expense.

No consideration is given to U.S. children and legal immigrant children who have graduated from high school, have good moral character and who would have lost their opportunity to attend college by passing the DREAM Act.

The parents violated the law and, as young adults, their children should look to rectifying their illegal status and not to have the rules changed to accommodate the furtherance of a known criminal act.

— Tenya Manny, Federal Way

Everyone in the car

The DREAM Act was not just about helping 60,000 high-school grads here illegally each year to go to college. It was a backdoor amnesty for millions because once legalized, these students would have been able to sponsor their illegal parents for permanent residency. They in turn would then sponsor members of their extended family and further increase chain migration.

A clear majority of Americans say the present 301 million population is enough. How can we have a green country when we continue, even now, to let in a million legal immigrants a year? How can we greatly reduce gasoline and fossil-fuel use over the next few years while letting in millions of new drivers?

Let's go back to the traditional (and very generous) 250,000 or so legals a year — after a five-year moratorium to "digest" the huge numbers we've let in in the past 20 years.

How super-crowded and super-sprawled and polluted a Western Washington do you and Sen. Patty Murray want for our grandchildren's world?

— James Merkner, Snohomish
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Originally Posted by zeezil

Letters to the Editor:

The problem is INS

It is apparent to me The Seattle Times is not listening to the people ["Dream deferred, Congress to blame," Times editorial, Oct. 30].

The problem is the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The provision in the law that makes it take 10 years to enter the country needs to be revised. Our borders above all must be secured.

I do not think Congress is to blame except if it is there jobs to enforce the laws.
The law does not to be changed. If if take 20 years to get here the laws still have to be obeyed. There is a reason for the time it takes. Those waiting may never get in. So be it.

[quote:2lims3it]The media create more of a furor than a solution. Had the media acted on the need for good border security and change in archaic policies in the '70s and '80s, illegal immigrants would not have been coming here by the semi-truckloads.

The media only reports on the problem and is does not cause it and does has have the job of solving it.

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With most of the illegals being hardworking and honest good people, shouldn't there be a streamline in INS policies — one that would permit those who are free of criminal records to enter the system for admission more quickly?

It does not matter if they are good people. They still have to wait their turn. And as it looks now, there are millions waiting ahead of them.

Let's go back to the traditional (and very generous) 250,000 or so legals a year — after a five-year moratorium to "digest" the huge numbers we've let in in the past 20 years.
How super-crowded and super-sprawled and polluted a Western Washington do you and Sen. Patty Murray want for our grandchildren's world?

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We are at the point were immigration has to be limited and controlled.