MONDAY AUGUST 3, 2009

Shut down Mexican border

Editor:

I'm concerned with the inaction by the Senate and the House concerning health care, however, I'm more concerned with the inaction concerning illegal immigration. It seems to me that if we get the illegal immigrants out, that it would alleviate a whole lot of problems. It would unclog our courts, alleviate overcrowding in our jails, and since uninsured illegal aliens are costing the American taxpayer $17 billion a year, just by breaking into our country to give birth, then claiming that because their children were born in America that they are American citizens, stopping them from violating our borders in the first place would be the intelligent solution. It would also free up those billions of dollars so that we could provide better health care for our own people.

I grow weary of the platitudes, excuses, and (what seems like childish infighting), stalling the process. We are (by your own admission) the only country that does not have an official language. English has been our language for over 230 years. Why is it so hard to get even this simple piece of legislation passed? Having to put everything into Spanish is costing the American taxpayer billions. More wasted funds that could be better spent elsewhere.

Please try to remember who you are supposed to be representing. We need relief from the unnecessary mollycoddling of people who didn't even show us the courtesy of entering our country legally, and their disrespectful rhetoric is not helping to endear them to us. "We're taking back America one Latino at a time." "English we don't need to learn no stinking English let them learn Espanol." We are sick of this.

Please don't make us, our children, or our children's children have to reconquer our own country. By our own laws if you break into our country you are, "persona non grata." This means that you are not entitled to legal representation, a jury trial, a hearing, or equal protection under our laws. If you have violated our borders what ever happens to you while you are here illegally happens.

Please shut down the Mexican border, order the illegal aliens out and repeal the failed policies of NAFTA now. And please, please, please enact legislation to make English the official language of the United States for once and for all.

CHERYL K. WOOD, Laramie

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