Open Letter
to House Speaker Pelosi
The
Webster's Seventh Collegiate dictionary defines a fence as: "1. A
means of protection: DEFENSE; 2. A
barrier intended to prevent escape or intrusion or to mark a boundary."
No matter what you political geniuses end up
doing with respect to border security, a fence is necessary. This is a matter of common sense - without
some sort of boundary marker ("a fence"), any person caught violating our border
can argue he thought he was still in Mexico.
The perceptive American voter is
fully aware that those caught violating our borders are allowed to request
asylum and tie up our judicial system at a huge cost not to mention the expense
of various holding areas.
The fact
that caravans in foreign nations, numbered in the thousands, have organized
with the intent to inflict themselves upon our sovereign nation with the
expectation they have a "right" to be here is an insult to the integrity and
the rights of all those persons who have sought citizenship in accordance to
the legal method. Many of us are angered
by these events and disappointed with our national leaders who appear to be
engaged in twiddling their thumbs while Rome burns.
A missed
opportunity . . .
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: If you
were a "deal-maker" and a bonafide leader of the "House," you could have
negotiated the size, height and cost of a "fence" and attached certain
legislation to this agreement:
Consider this:
"We," (meaning the U.S.) decide to put up a chain link fence at a more
reasonable cost and post signs all along the border fence stating that "Trespassers will be prosecuted and barred
from requesting asylum."
This would be accompanied by
legislation amending certain provisions of the Immigration Law to deal with the
current border invasion in exchange for a reduction in the border wall costs -
for example:
1.
Those
persons apprehended in the act of crossing our border in violation of our
nation's immigration laws should be barred from requesting asylum. They should be finger printed and returned
immediately to their country of origin.
2.
Those
persons caught violating our border a second time should be prosecuted for a
felony and thus permanently disqualified from entry or citizenship to this
country.
This solution would
save the taxpayer literally $-thousands in housing expenses and would relieve
the huge burden now imposed on our court system. Moreover, word would get out that this old
technique of barging across the US border and, if caught, requesting asylum is
no longer an option.
Instead, it appears you, along with
many Democrats, have allowed your hostile feelings toward the President to
overcome your duty to act in the best interest of the United States.