DREAM ACT
Please find
a more positive voice when you are dealing with the passage of the Dream ACT as
words, thoughts, and emotions are energy that seeps into our society and the
world at large. You need to educate the
citizens of our country, along with members of congress, to the facts on this
issue:
1. Remind everyone that the vast
majority of our country’s current population’s ancestors came around the globe.
2. The Hispanic immigrant’s ancestors
were here long before Europeans.
3. That all immigrants pay taxes in one
form or another whether here legally or not. They pay taxes when they buy food,
cars, gas, homes, etc. And from my experience, most of the ones here illegally
even paid Federal taxes by use of phony SSN’s. That money goes into our
treasury but they don’t get any benefits from it.
4. They are consumers!
5. They are needed because our
population is aging rapidly while birth rates are dropping even faster. We need
these people to keep the social programs such SSI solvent.
6. They come here because they can find
work that Americans won’t do.
7. Remind people that immigrant’s serve
in our military, fight, and die for our country.
8. Open the door WIDE for the H1B visa system to make it easier for the talented
engineers and doctors to get citizenship more quickly. They emigrate from our country to others that
are more welcoming of their talents.
9. We owe Mexico a BIG apology for the
mess at our shared borders. America is
the biggest arms dealer on our planet and we make them readily available to
anyone with cash. Additionally, the drug issue is our problem because funding
for addiction treatment is minimal at best and non-existent in rural
communities where meth addiction is very high. Legalize pot then let law
enforce focus on meth, crack, heroin, etc. Following up on these actions would
calm things down considerably at the Mexican border.
Please remind people that America is a very young nation in comparison to many on this planet. America is a nation of immigrants that wouldn’t exist and be what it is today without these brave adventurers. All cultures bring with them new and different ways to look at life and therefore bring new insight and hope into how our nation could evolve for the better.
I’ll end my letter with a line from one of my favorite songs – “if everybody looked the same we’d get tired of looking at each other”.
Appreciatively yours,
Leslie Beil
Written 12-20-10
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