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Dear Editor,
Our Mexican neighbors have got it tough. Their government isn’t doing what it should for them. Not on the local level or the state level or the federal level. They are getting chewed alive in a system that is set up to benefit the wealthy and squeeze the poor not only into poverty but ultimately to death. Because there is no change on the horizon and the rich and lazy have no intention of making those needed changes they have come up with a way to solve the problem. They are reducing the numbers of the poor by telling them to go the United States . In some cases these people are being forced through poverty, hardship, disease and hunger to cross the border to find any kind of work to keep themselves and their families alive. What would you do in desperate times? I tell you that if this government kept food, medicine, money and land from me and I could not fight them effectively and there was a country right next door I could walk into and be free and strong and save my family – I would do it. So millions of our neighbors have come to our land. If you want to stop the illegal immigration problem you have two choices : 1. Regime change in Mexico 2. Open the border and let people come and go as they please We will eventually be one country – the choice is – will tyranny spread north or will freedom spread south?
Alfred Brock
The decision of the federal government to sue the state of Arizona is nothing more then the feds thumbing its nose at the American public.
I don’t blame the Obama administration for the lack of border security — it has been going on for decades. Why? The feds keep telling us that they are protecting our borders while taking the side of the criminal aliens who attack the Border Patrol at will.
Whenever we have an incident along the border, the feds quickly go on record showing support to the illegal alien. Now that Arizona has signed a bill that will support the federal law against illegal immigration by trying to arrest those who sneak into my country, again, the feds take the side of these criminals.
Illegal immigration costs the taxpayers billions every year. The illegal alien crime spree is out of control. California has asked the feds for some help, and they just put up signs.
Illegal aliens are sucking the life out of taxpayers in many ways. All over the U.S. schools are overcrowded with kids from illegal aliens who live under the radar and don’t pay their share of taxes to support schools. As the school population of Hispanics grows, the feds support bilingual education to help illegal aliens. They also mandate bilingual printed state and fed documents to help the illegal aliens with their quest for more public support.
I'm not against Hispanics. They have a rich history in the state. The are, however, against the unchecked migration of illegal aliens who bleed the system dry and bring crime to a state that only wants to offer what they can to its state citizens and legal residents.
Ron Heimer
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