[originally posted 9/10/2006]
Senator Hutchison,
I recently visited Ground Zero for the first time since the 9/11 attacks. I was most affected not by the lack of the towers but by the display of childrens paintings near the site. Two samples are included in this letter.
I wept out loud when I first saw these images. As a father of children aged three and six my job is to do everything humanly possible to protect my children from harm. The government is supposed to play the same role for its citizens. Failure to enforce current laws and thus allow, and even encourage, the open flow of illegal aliens from many nations into our country is a slap in the face to the founding fathers, our soldiers and our patriotic citizenry. Why isn’t our border being secured?
There WILL be another day like 9/11. To think that this is paranoia is blatant denial of an obvious truth. While officials meet to discuss what else citizens cannot carry onto a plane, people from middle-eastern countries that want to kill us (irregardless of our political affiliation) are entering our homeland unabated. They are planning their next attacks on our water supplies, sports arenas, shopping malls and office buildings.
How can you sleep at night knowing that when, not if, but WHEN the next disaster takes place that you have done nothing to make our nation safer? Do you realize the political, personal and legal wrath that awaits all currently elected politicians that will have American blood on their hands when the next 9/11 happens? I literally lose sleep thinking that there is NOTHING I can do as a citizen of a country whose government is supposedly OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people.
In March of this year you stated “We need to enhance security along the border and in the interior, but we also need comprehensive immigration reform.” Apparently it appears that the Senate views border security and amnesty as a single issue. This is NOT an immigration issue and should NOT be tied to amnesty or other Mexican-related topics. This is about NATIONAL SECURITY.
Why must bills be passed with strict dependencies on other topics? Current immigration laws are sufficient but our law keeping forces are not. On this you and your constituents agree. But, to ignore our porous border and suffer another attack while trying to figure out how to appease the Mexican population and those unpatriotic businesses that fuel the flow of illegal aliens would be analogous to a doctor ignoring a severed limb and trying to save the patient by offering him an aspirin and some water. The continuing flow of blood or illegal aliens will kill each victim.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE draft and pass legislation that secures our borders before we suffer the pain of another 9/11. It is not impossible, it is not difficult, and it is not a campaign issue. It is a matter of time, a matter of life and death. Let the citizens of other countries take a back seat for the time being and focus on the citizens that put you into office in the first place.
Failure to enforce current laws and thus allow, and even encourage, the open flow of illegal aliens from many nations into our country is a slap in the face to the founding fathers, our soldiers and our patriotic citizenry. Why isn’t our border being secured?
WHAT!!?? If the founding fathers thought this way, we wouldn’t have a country!! I agree that illegals should have to get into this country the honest way, but to shut the borders, tell anyone who isn’t american to stay out is leaning this country towards isolationism, is that what you want!? Stop being ignorant to the plight of those less fortunate, or at the least uncaring and callous.
The founding fathers understood that freedom is not negotiable, that poverty and subjugation are not mandatory, and, lets not forget that most important line in THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL!!!!!! This is also not negotiable. The problems that exist between countries, races, social status, color and creeds, were created, fostered and festered by HUMANS! Not through some BS “divine right” crap.
Stop being divisionary, and start thinking globally. Our energy needs, our living conditions, and our very survival, as humans on this, the one and only planet we have, are all dependent on ALL HUMANS!! Not just america and her allies.
There is nothing written, ANYWHERE, that defines our point of view is the absolute right one. Not the constitution either. The constitution is a set of guidelines that give humans a sense of accomplishment, and is a doctrine of peace and understanding, not seperatism and isolationism. The arrogance of the United States in both world events and events right here at home has been staggering. We definitely have the right to feel proud of what we’ve created and accomplished as a country, but the self-righteousness of some on “this countrys behalf” is embarrassing, disgusting and THOUROUGHLY UNAMERICAN!!!
Brian, thanks for visiting and for commenting.
Nowhere in my post do I ask for us to become isolationist. I recognize the global nature of our economy. I also recognize the rule of law.
However, your entire response is based on you removing the world “illegal” from my post. I welcome with open arms all LEGAL immigrants, as did our founding fathers and as America did at the start of the 1900s. My concern expressed in this letter is about our lack of border seccurity and the chance for terrorists to enter our country with great ease and then cause more damage to our country.
My entire post is based on securing our borders, not locking the rest of the world out. Perhaps you missed that aspect of it, but you can’t simply remove the concept of “illegal” from the discussion.
All men ARE created equal, and all men are expected to follow the laws of the country they live in.
Thanks again for posting, I appreciate it.
“lets not forget that most important line in THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL!!!!!! ”
This line is nowhere in the Constitution.
Correct. It is from the Declaration of Independence.