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Feedback: Beyond Borders, June 18

Illegal immigrants flaunt nation’s laws
Our “Stars and Stripes,” which many have died defending, represents America from the days of our founding fathers with one nation, one language, one loyalty and strict adherence to law and order.

Yet, we have seen the illegal aliens and their supporters waving Mexican flags galore and our flag upside down – until they realized it was a slap in the face of the Americans. Now, they are trying to out-wave everyone with American flags.

So today, the United States of America is facing a crisis by being inundated with people who have divided loyalties, many with dual citizenship, who are imposing their language on every aspect of institutions in this country, maintaining their culture and flouting the legal basis of citizenship by entering illegally.

While no one questions the diversity of the melting pot of America, the crisis creates stark separate ethnic, multi-cultural entities within the nation.

This crisis was also caused by years of Congress ignoring the continuing illegal alien invasion. Witness how the earlier boycott tried to intimidate our government..

The motto of the boycott was “Today we march, tomorrow we vote.” They already have announced an intensive voter registration drive. So when the voting power shifts, the tenets of American freedom will be markedly different for the historical patterns of our lifestyle.

This is how to solve the problem:

First: A strict clamp on border crossing is needed today. Thousands are crossing our borders each day. The 1984 amnesty failed because of no enforcement.

Second: Existing laws prohibiting employment must be enforced now.

Third: Legal immigration should be increased, and quickly, for legitimate labor needs.

Fourth: For the millions of illegals already here, with the border tightly closed, employers reluctant to risk hiring them, and stepped-up legal immigration, there is no need for any guest worker program or amnesty.

The illegals will eventually go back home, and new illegals would be reluctant to try to cross the closed border.

And as for the money the illegals do earn, some $20 billion a year is sent “home” to build foreign infrastructure and support their own communities, and they do not contribute their fair share toward keeping America’s base strong. It's all take and no give.

Mexico is simply dumping its people into the United States. Why is it that some do not understand that illegal is illegal is illegal?

- MEL HODELL, Upland
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Immigration bill targets sovereignty

The devil is in the details, as they say, and the recently passed immigration bill is certainly full of some interesting details in its almost 800 pages.

Senate Bill 2611 chips away at our national sovereignty, while providing for an amnesty, a pardon and a reward for years of felonious activity inside the United States, and the importation of a serf class.

We begin to lose our national sovereignty when foreign powers are allowed to help determine our national policies.

This bill proposes a border wall that would be built on United States soil. However, this bill also specifically states the United States

officials “shall consult” with Mexican government officials “before the commencement of any such construction.”

With this bill, our Senate intended to give officials of a foreign government influence, if not veto power, over construction done solely on our soil and solely intended to assist with the enforcement of our own immigration laws.

The amnesty is, of course, for the crime of illegally entering or being in the United States, and would apply to many millions.

The scope and size of the pardoning provisions in this bill are unprecedented. It is a federal felony to fraudulently use someone else’s Social Security number. In California, it is a felony called identity theft, and it can include fraudulently using other information.

However, this bill pardons years worth of those very felonies for the illegals taking advantage of the amnesty.

In addition, those businesses that have hired illegal aliens for years would be pardoned if they assisted those illegals in obtaining amnesty by providing documentary proof that they had hired those same illegals.

Apparently, enforcement activity would be taken only against those businesses that did not assist their illegal employees with obtaining amnesty.

Our senators were even thinking about those illegal aliens working the fields who wanted to qualify for the amnesty, but had been working under a false name.

This bill stated that in order to show that an illegal alien had worked long enough to qualify for amnesty as an agricultural worker, special procedures “shall” be established “to properly credit work in cases in which an alien was employed under an assumed name.”

There are thousands of American citizens in prison for committing these felonies, while our senators have now decided to excuse millions of illegal aliens for doing the very same thing.

Under current law, believe it or not, illegal aliens who have paid into Social Security while in an “undocumented status” can get credit for the time they worked using somebody else’s Social Security number.

There was an attempt in the Senate to amend this immigration bill so that the proposed amnesty would not result in those millions of illegal aliens getting Social Security credit for their years of felonious activity.

However, this proposed amendment was voted down, and, as a result, the years of felonious activity would entitle those millions to corresponding credit in the Social Security system.

This bill, which a majority of our United States Senators voted for, makes a mockery of our national sovereignty and of the idea that we are a technologically advanced nation of laws. We are at the point now where we have to look at the House for Representatives to stand up for the United States and for the rule of law.

- STEPHEN M. KIRBY, Chino