Dear Representative Gowdy:
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my letter of March 31. I appreciate your prompt and thoughtful reply.
I wish to respond to two of your comments.
(1) Concerning your remark, "As a nation of immigrants...." The fact that we are a nation of immigrants is not relevant to the discussion if immigration, either legal or illegal. First, all nations are nations of immigrants. Second, with regard to immigration policy, it is the size and composition of the population that matters, not how they arrived.
(2) Concerning your remark, "Proposals that balance the humanity that defines us as a people with the respect for the rule of law that defines us as a republic are welcome." The Constitution requires the President and all Senators and Representatives to support the Constitution. That the United States has been invaded by illegal aliens is beyond dispute -- the presence of an estimated eleven million or more illegal aliens represents an invasion, by any definition of the term. Protecting the States from invasion is one of the few duties of the President and the Congress that is explicitly cited in the Constitution. In fulfilling this duty, Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower rounded up and deported a large proportion of the illegal-alien community ("Operation Wetback"). You may deem it presumptuous of me to remind you of your duty as a Congressman, but the facts are that the country is seriously invaded by illegal aliens, the government could deport them very quickly, and it chooses not to do so. It is your responsibility to work to repel this invasion -- to deport the illegal invaders as quickly as possible. The Constitution does not state that invasions should be repelled by considering "proposals that balance the humanity that defines us as a people." When a soldier is sent into battle, he is not asked to balance his duty to repel or kill the enemy with humanity -- he is asked to do his duty. The United States has been invaded by millions of illegal aliens. The fact that his has been allowed to happen over a long period of time by many Presidents and Congresses does not change the fact that it is the Constitutional duty of the President and Congress to repel the invasion. Please accept your responsibility to do so, and work to discharge this responsibility. Please do not aid and abet the continued presence of the invaders of our country, by promoting laws that will allow them to remain in our country any longer. Please do not reward them with a path to citizenship. For their crime, deny them the possibility of ever being granted citizenship, even if they have produced citizen "anchor babies." Please work to deport them immediately, as did President Eisenhower and his predecessors.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Joseph George Caldwell
Spartanburg, SC
7 April 2013
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FndTitle(Comments on Immigration)
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FndKeywords(immigration; immigration policy; illegal immigration; immigration invasion; US Constitution requires prtecting the States from invasion)