Open email to Sen. Cornyn (Texas):
Dear Sen. Cornyn,
I have read your newsletter, which is basically an address to the Senate Judiciary Committee prior to its consideration of the Immigration Reform Bill.
I generally like your statement. It will involve people, but from a regulatory point of view, we should not be confusing legal requirements for the whole with compassionate considerations for individual cases. You also appear to accent the fact that immigration control has been completely lacking by federal agencies responsible for same. You particularly make the point that 40% of illegal immigrants come in legally and overstay their visas. Great point! And, only another indication of inability or lack of desire for government agencies to do their job. I don't know what we can do about that. Seems to me that you can pass the perfect immigration bill, but if nobody pays any attention to it, it is completely useless.
There is another aspect circulating through public opinion. It involves the devious practices of Democrats to do whatever they can to maintain entrance of what Limbaugh calls low information voters to the US. It is generally agreed that such entrants will vote Democratic and maintain the Democratic power within the US government. With that background, we can anticipate that Democratic participation in any bill will be favorable to continue Democratic control.
In that consideration, it is also said that while Sen. Marco Rubio has vocally proposed a reasonable context to an immigration bill, he has allowed Democrats such as Chuck Schumer to draft what is said to be a 400 page bill. This is obviously a naïve approach. People who draft a bill will always do so with preferences to their personal beliefs and the more pages the bill can occupy, the less likely it is that the partiality will be discovered.
You have advised in your address to the Senate Judiciary committee that the full Senate should be deeply involved in this. Unfortunately, I believe you'll be one of the first to agree that in practicality this will not happen. The matter will be controlled by a few and voted on by most.
I can only encourage you to take a personal involvement in the preparation of the bill, and suggest you start with the fact it should not be 400 or so pages, but rather should be boiled down to a half dozen pages of clear statements so that most persons can see what it actually contains. In addition, you have to do something about enforcement of the new law that will be passed. I don't know what that will be, but I believe the only control Congress has on any of the administrative agencies is a matter of funding. I encourage you to use that weapon.
Dear Sen. Cornyn,
I have read your newsletter, which is basically an address to the Senate Judiciary Committee prior to its consideration of the Immigration Reform Bill.
I generally like your statement. It will involve people, but from a regulatory point of view, we should not be confusing legal requirements for the whole with compassionate considerations for individual cases. You also appear to accent the fact that immigration control has been completely lacking by federal agencies responsible for same. You particularly make the point that 40% of illegal immigrants come in legally and overstay their visas. Great point! And, only another indication of inability or lack of desire for government agencies to do their job. I don't know what we can do about that. Seems to me that you can pass the perfect immigration bill, but if nobody pays any attention to it, it is completely useless.
There is another aspect circulating through public opinion. It involves the devious practices of Democrats to do whatever they can to maintain entrance of what Limbaugh calls low information voters to the US. It is generally agreed that such entrants will vote Democratic and maintain the Democratic power within the US government. With that background, we can anticipate that Democratic participation in any bill will be favorable to continue Democratic control.
In that consideration, it is also said that while Sen. Marco Rubio has vocally proposed a reasonable context to an immigration bill, he has allowed Democrats such as Chuck Schumer to draft what is said to be a 400 page bill. This is obviously a naïve approach. People who draft a bill will always do so with preferences to their personal beliefs and the more pages the bill can occupy, the less likely it is that the partiality will be discovered.
You have advised in your address to the Senate Judiciary committee that the full Senate should be deeply involved in this. Unfortunately, I believe you'll be one of the first to agree that in practicality this will not happen. The matter will be controlled by a few and voted on by most.
I can only encourage you to take a personal involvement in the preparation of the bill, and suggest you start with the fact it should not be 400 or so pages, but rather should be boiled down to a half dozen pages of clear statements so that most persons can see what it actually contains. In addition, you have to do something about enforcement of the new law that will be passed. I don't know what that will be, but I believe the only control Congress has on any of the administrative agencies is a matter of funding. I encourage you to use that weapon.
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