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Immigration law enforcement is needed
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Jan. 4, 2011 2:44 pm
In response to your misguided, one-sided Dec. 29 editorial titled “Don't give up the ‘dream,' fix it”:
The DREAM Act is not a noble objective, and all such considerations of continuing to rehatch it should be abandoned for several reasons.
America should not reward people for breaking our laws, and to reward them simply because they have evaded being captured for a given period of time is a completely insane notion and unfair to all of us law-abiding and legal citizens.
The sheer numbers of illegal immigrants, fugitives from justice and now in the tens of millions and counting, are the greatest threats to our nation's social, economic and environmental well-being, and our sovereignty.
There is no reason to change any of our immigration laws or reform them. What is needed and is being demanded by the majority of Americans enforcement of our current immigration laws.
Illegal immigrants who smuggle their children across the border should be charged wit child endangerment for teaching their children to break the law and placing them in danger crossing the war zone border between America and Mexico.
Gary Hooper
Luana
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