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Here is a copy of the letter I will be sending to President Bush soon:

Dear Mr. President,

As I write this letter, my heart is heavy. My voice, and the voices of millions of Americans, has been muzzled. Despite all that we say to you, Mr. President, we are not heard.

When your father ran for President, I voted for him; to continue the policies of President Reagan, the policies that made the 80s one of the greatest growth periods of modern America and set the foundation for the explosive growth of the 90s. When you ran for the Governor of Texas, I was there to vote for you, just as I was there to vote for you when you ran for President. When I moved to Florida, I was proud to vote for your brother, Jeb, to be re-elected as governor.

In the 60s, when my country needed me to stand for freedom, I answered her call. Today, as the result of exposure to Agent Orange, I have a service-connected disability. I served my country to the best of my ability, Mr. President, always concerned that the impact of not serving could have on future generations of Americans. Above all, I was willing to lay down my life to preserve the most precious, most sacred document that exists in America; our Constitution.

The Constitution is more than an old, yellowing piece of paper protected in the Library of Congress archives. It is the document that stunned the world of the 18th century, providing a framework of government that reserved and guaranteed rights for the citizens of America. Nowhere else on earth did the citizens have guaranteed rights against the formidable power of the government; only in the United States of America. These guaranteed rights, memorialized by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, made America the sole beacon of freedom in the world. From, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, South America, Central America, Antarctica and the Arctic, people from all walks of life risked their lives, their families and their fortunes to participate in the freedom America offered.

For more than two hundred years, our Constitutional rights have been the sacred trust of our elected representatives and our Supreme Court. Only under your administration have our Constitutionally guaranteed rights been muzzled. When the McCain-Feingold Bill was first presented, you promised to veto it, noting the unConstitutional provisions it contained that violate our First Amendment rights. Instead of vetoing a bill that you knew was flawed, you signed it; passing the buck to the Supreme Court to eliminate the unConstitutional provisions of the bill. In signing that bill, Mr. President, you betrayed your promise to veto it, you betrayed your countrymen and you betrayed me. I fought to ensure that the provisions of the Constitution would always be available to future generations. Never in my wildest imagination did I believe that a conservative President would support a law that muzzles the most precious of American values; the freedom of speech.

When you signed that bill into law, Mr. President, you opened the floodgates of an assault on the remainder of our freedoms. Already, legislators across the country are developing legislation for the new Congress that will curtail our freedoms even more. And, to reward the author of our loss of freedom, you are allowing Sen. John McCain to develop the foundation of your new “immigration reform”. The same Sen. McCain who gave us McCain-Feingold and the loss of our freedom of speech.

With Sen. McCain writing the fundamental provisions of “immigration reform”, I expect more of my Constitutional rights to be eroded in the guise of legislation intended to benefit America. It won’t. Instead of any effort to control the flow of illegals across our borders, I fully anticipate that our borders will be completely erased and American citizenship will be for sale to the highest bidder. America has only been a beacon to immigrants around the world because of the freedoms our Constitution guarantees. When we give away the rights of citizenship to those who entered this country by violating our laws, citizenship is no longer the prize it should be regarded but, instead, becomes only a cheap and meaningless caricature of itself to those who gained it fraudulently.

Successive polls have routinely shown that Americans all across this great nation want our borders controlled, our laws enforced and illegal immigration stopped. Instead of heeding the wishes of Americans who fund the programs and agencies charged with controlling immigration and the sovereignty of our country, our elected representatives ignore us and push legislation that rewards those who come to this country in violation of our laws. Instead of finding them, arresting them and deporting them, they are, instead, given access to deplete our social services and safety net programs of their resources, thereby depriving the Americans who have paid for those services the ability to access them. Instead of establishing English as our national language, we have rewarded illegal immigrants not by requiring that they speak our language, but that we speak theirs!

Next month you will meet with President Vicente Fox to renew immigration talks. Here are the results I would like to see from those talks:

1) The U.S. would demand that Mexico begin enforcing the sovereign borders that divide the US and Mexico,
2) The U.S. would demand that Mexico impose punitive measures on repeat illegal immigrants,
3) The U.S. would demand that Mexico stop encouraging Mexicans to immigrate illegally to the US,
4) Mexico and the U.S. would come to a substantive agreement on a guest worker program that would benefit both Mexico and the US and, when it was over, ensure that those guest workers went back home,
5) Mexico would begin investing some of the profits from its oil revenues from Pemex into developing new industries that would keep potential illegal immigrants at home,
6) The U.S. and Mexico would develop a joint task force that would penetrate the Hispanic communities in the US to arrest and deport illegal immigrants,
7) Establish meaningful and substantive fines for those employers who hire illegal immigrants.

I fully expect none of that to occur. Given your and Secretary Ridge’s historically soft stance on illegal immigration, I expect that more Americans will be displaced from their jobs by illegal aliens. In recent years, the caliber of illegal aliens coming to this country from Mexico are better educated and have taken professional, white collar jobs from American citizens of equal or better education. Rather than the stereotypical peons living in squalor to eke out enough of an income to support family in Mexico, many of these recent “immigrants” have college educations, live in up-scale neighborhoods and drive SUVs.

When the new Congress convenes, Mr. President, I would like to see you support a bill that completely and totally repeals the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) in its entirety. Since the Supreme Court failed to observe its most basic and sacred duty, preserving the rights guaranteed under the Constitution, the only way to right this stunning wrong committed by you, the Congress, the Senate and the Supreme Court is to repeal the law. If it is not repealed, Senate and Congressional incumbents may be re-elected under the terms of this flawed, unConstitutional and criminal legislation, but you may not be so fortunate. Many conservatives, myself included, are outraged at the loss of freedom that this bill represents and nothing short of its repeal will suffice.

In addition, when you meet with Mexico’s President, Vicente Fox, it would please a majority of Americans if you would take proactive measures to restore our sovereign borders, curtail the flow of illegals across our southern border, deport those who are living in the U.S. illegally and work with Mexico to enforce our laws and preserve the rights of citizenship for American citizens.

Campaign Finance Reform (McCain-Feingold) and “immigration reform” are but two issues you have tackled as President. Overall, Mr. President, aside from the tax cuts you championed and the War on Terror, in my opinion, there are many issues you have tackled that are not hallmarks of a conservative President. Conservatives appreciate having a strong President in office that will defend our security, but we also want a President who stands for principles of honesty and fairness. Chief among those are the stalwart defense of the Constitution. I defended that Constitution, Mr. President, as did you and our fathers, our grandfathers and so on. America is a great country with great traditions. We need you to help restore those traditions; restore the greatness of a country on the precipice of more greatness or bitter decline.