KLRU
Agree With Hamilton
RECEIVED Sun., July 6, 2014
Dear Editor,
I agree that Sheriff Hamilton should continue to honor S-comm detainers for illegals in Austin [“Cold as ICE,” News, July 4].
The United States allows more legal immigration than any other country on Earth. People have respected our process and waited their turn to immigrate legally. It is a slap in the face of legal immigrants to allow any amnesty or lack of enforcement to illegals who have broken our laws, work for cash and rarely pay taxes, and keep wages artificially low.
We currently have millions of unemployed American workers that need to be considered in this debate. The middle class in America is being ignored by the White House. President Obama has attempted to make this a humanitarian debate, while the Democrats really want future voters and the Republicans want cheap labor. Everyone knows a real E-verify system in the workplace would solve this problem.
The short sighted City Council resolution is just the sort of thing that is driving the border surge we are presently spending millions on weekly to contain. Until President Obama enforces the law we will continue to be under siege from the south.
Former Austinite Barbara Jordan, who chaired the congressional committee on U.S. immigration reform in 1995, said that illegal immigration undermines America's tradition as a nation of immigrants, and concluded the report with "Immigration policy, like foreign policy, ought to be a place where the national interest comes first, last, and always."
I agree that Sheriff Hamilton should continue to honor S-comm detainers for illegals in Austin [“Cold as ICE,” News, July 4].
The United States allows more legal immigration than any other country on Earth. People have respected our process and waited their turn to immigrate legally. It is a slap in the face of legal immigrants to allow any amnesty or lack of enforcement to illegals who have broken our laws, work for cash and rarely pay taxes, and keep wages artificially low.
We currently have millions of unemployed American workers that need to be considered in this debate. The middle class in America is being ignored by the White House. President Obama has attempted to make this a humanitarian debate, while the Democrats really want future voters and the Republicans want cheap labor. Everyone knows a real E-verify system in the workplace would solve this problem.
The short sighted City Council resolution is just the sort of thing that is driving the border surge we are presently spending millions on weekly to contain. Until President Obama enforces the law we will continue to be under siege from the south.
Former Austinite Barbara Jordan, who chaired the congressional committee on U.S. immigration reform in 1995, said that illegal immigration undermines America's tradition as a nation of immigrants, and concluded the report with "Immigration policy, like foreign policy, ought to be a place where the national interest comes first, last, and always."
Jack Swingler
