An Open Letter to Ken Mehlman

Mr. Mehlman,

I want to thank you for the stirring letter requesting my support for the upcoming election cycle; my $25.00 check will be sent out shortly. I do however, have one question, how am I supposed to support a party that seems to have listened to its core members and voters and then gone and done the exact opposite of what we want?

I am of course talking about the President’s Illegal Immigration/Amnesty proposal. The conservative base of the Republican Party has for years stood for a strong border and stance on immigration, especially illegal immigration. We want and have demanded a more secure border between the US and Mexico only to be given, in the form of current and pending legislation a border that couldn’t stop a child, let alone a terrorist.

Illegal immigration is the single issue that is going to destroy our country. Currently both sides of Congress are crying that Social Security and Medicare cost too much, but every day we add thousands of illegal immigrants to the rolls of Medicare and Medicaid stressing an already fragile system to the breaking point. Millions of illegal immigrants are already in this country and many major cities have adopted policies that require their law enforcement officers to ignore federal laws about immigration, and we still give those cities billions of federal dollars to care for their illegal immigrants.

I am well aware that even if we were to build a fence or wall 1 mile wide and stop all of the illegal border crossing we would not have stopped the 9/11 terrorists from entering the country. Sadly our own US Department of State seems as intent on ignoring federal laws on immigration as most of our major cities by offering Visa’s to persons from known terrorist nations and then never follows up on them once they arrive.

For Mexico, Illegal immigration is their biggest industry. This is recognized by the Mexican Government when they publish and distribute pamphlets on how to cross the border safely but still illegally. Furthermore, the current McCain/Kennedy bill is a slap in the face of millions of immigrant Americans that immigrated to the US legally and made something of themselves, they are in essence being called patsies by our legislators who wish to provide Amnesty and instant citizenship to the billions that arrived here illegally. While Sensenbrenner’s bill is touted by both sides as Fascist in nature and he is caricatured as a modern day Hitler by the illegal immigration lobby.

What we need is a leader who is able to secure our borders from both terrorists and those that wish to live off of the government. America is still the destination of choice for all immigrants and with good reason, but we can’t let the illegal immigrants and their lobbies dictate to us how we will administer our own Government.

I await your answers; in the meantime, the check is in the mail.