Open Letter to the President

Of course it is amnesty. But the use of the word is now toxic.
Of course wages have been lowered by the influx of illegals, but that fact is overshadowed by the increase in potential voters. And the emotional tirade about "who would pick our vegetables" is comical; the vast majority of illegals do not work in agriculture. Take a look at the wage dive in construction jobs in this state...
Finally, many of us would support the Dream Act if there was any requirement for proof of completion of an academic program instead of an unverifiable statement from the person applying.
Both Dems and Repubs are continuing to use immigration policy for their own interest instead of the collective interest of the country.

I think more immigration would be absolutely what this country needs. But we need to do it the right way. Have people go through the legal process to immigrate here which can be aggravating, expensive and very slow. What we don't need is to reward people for violating our immigration laws by giving them legal status. It's a slap in the face to those who have come here legally and an invitation to the destitute and desparate of the world to also violate our laws by entering the country illegally or to otherwise reside here without legal status.

Why would Gallegly write an open letter to the President? I mean, can't he write directly or just make a phone call? He is a Congressman after all :)

Just more grandstanding from Gallegly, who refuses to meet with his constituents.

Gallegly comes to the simplistic conclusion that if we shipped all the Mexicans back to Mexico that all of a sudden our 26 million unemployed would "get back to work".....
He doesn't bother to explain the mechanism that would make that happen. How, for instance would all the unemployed electronics workers who's jobs have been outsourced to China and India find employment just because we deport a couple of million construction workers and busboys?
Continued Federal tax benefits that reward corporations for shipping our jobs overseas are a primary cause for unemployment. Trying to figure out a way to deport 7 million productive workers will cure neither unemployment nor xenophobia.

The question is this: Why have immigration laws if they are not enforced or enforced according to the dictates of certain pressure groups? Either the laws should be enforced, or taken off the books; anything else is hypocritical.

Conditions in most of the world are terrible, and since Mexico is next door to us naturally more immigrants will come in from that country than any other. Having said that, the emphasis should be on the problems down there being fixed.

Amnesty for Illegals?

The only way Obama will get elected for another 4 years!

dou4now.