Is this your final opus?
I have been working on a volunteer basis for five years as a member of a grassroots organizatin on the immigration issue. We lobby on the Hill and in Richmond. I have worked closely with such organizations as NumbersUSA, the Center for Immigration Studies, and Representative Steve King.
I felt so strongly about the issue that I joined a number of my colleagues in 2008 following the McCain campaign for four days each in the SC and Fl primaries demonstrating against his amnesty policies. We drove over 4000 miles.
Despite my intense dislike for McCain, I found myself on the telephone in the run up to the 2008 election trying to get Reps out to the polls to defeat Obama, who I felt was a threat to the future of this country. I have been proven right.
Any legislation that legalizes the status of those who broke our laws by entering our country illegally and allows them to stay is amnesty. We must not only prevent the Democrats and some moderate Republicans from hijacking the meaning of the word amnesty, but the public must be made aware about the true impact of an amnesty. The Heritage Foundation concluded that the cost of amnesty would be $2.6 trillion just for increased entitlement program costs. And the number of additional LEGAL immigrants who would join those who were the recipients of amnesty through chain migration, i.e., family reunification, would approach 70 million over a 20-year period, assuming there are only 12 million illegal aliens. We cannot assimilate such numbers. An amnesty would destroy the United States of America with the stroke of a pen.
When you reward something, you get more of it.