An Open Letter to Congress about Immigration

An Open Letter to Congress,

This country has a motto, E Pluribus Unum; From Many, One. This occurs when people accept the complete American Dream with all its responsibilities as well as its privileges.

As the son of LEGAL immigrants, I fully understand the desire of people to come to our great nation. My father and mother worked hard to make a good life for themselves, my sister and me in this great nation of opportunity. The key is that they came in legally and from Day 1 were respectful of American Law. They understood that to reap the rewards of this country, they needed to adapt to the American culture. They knew they needed to learn English from the start, they needed to pay taxes and they needed to educate their children in the greatness of this nation. They needed to respect the American Way of Life. They were not looking to be hyphenated Americans, they wanted to be American.

The time has come for Congress to stop pandering to illegal immigrant pressure groups and stand up for the laws of our nation. Illegal immigration HAS to be stopped and those who are here illegally need to be returned to their homelands. Many of the illegal immigrants (please don't call them undocumented) have no desire to learn English. They have no desire to pay for our schools and roads and military and our many other services through participation in taxation. They want our jobs and our privileges without participating in the cost and responsibilities that come with them. They use the security nets that our society has built to take care of our own people. These people do not seek the American Dream, they seek the American Handout. This is not an issue of "diversity". This is an issue of survival of our country.

There is a cost to this immigration. The Southwest has become overwhelmed with poor immigrants. Gangs have entered and terrorized or citizens. Our border guards are under attack. Our own unemployed lose the opportunity to do the jobs that these illegal immigrants are taking because they will do them without paying taxes. Employers feel that they need to hire these people under the table to compete, eroding the tax bases of these states.

If people do not assimilate into the "American Dream", the dream will be just that, a dream. It is only in accepting our way of life that America's "Grand Experiment" will survive. We already have great strife occurring because of the lack of responsibility to the United States. As more people come, the strains will be even greater. We have seen the issues that occur over language, morals and religion in 20th Century Europe. They same can and will occur here if the American Dream as we know it dies.

As the demonstrations this past weekend showed, some of these people want nothing less than the takeover of the Southwest of our country. Don't tell me that they are a "small minority". This is a movement that has taken hold in the Mexican community. The Aztlan movement states that the Southwest and California was "stolen" from Mexico in the 19th Century, and it should be returned to Mexican rule. There was even a banner at the LA demonstrations that read "THIS IS STOLEN LAND". One of the candidates in the recent California gubernatorial elections, Cruz Bustamante, is a supporter of this movement. When will it stop?

Congressmen are the only ones that have the power to end this destruction of the American Dream. Simply accepting illegals into the country will not address the underlying issue. The illegals have no faith in the American Dream. They have not been told that to remain, they must support and defend the American Way of Life with all their hearts and souls. They have not been taught the responsibilities that create the opportunities. They must spilt from the old country and accept that to make their lives better, they must participate in our land "Of the People". Only if these issues are addressed, can the destruction that is occurring in the Southwest be stopped. Think carefully where you should stand on this issue. Will this Congress be the ones that rule over the collapse of the American Dream?