Lawrence and Diane Headrick are friends of the Dustin Inman Society and old and dear friends of mine.<\/p>\n
Published: May 02, 2008 06:11 pm <\/p>\n
ICE needs to do more, not less<\/strong><\/p>\n To the editor:<\/p>\n Really, is time money wasted by ICE actions? How do I state what I perceive in this issue, let me count the ways.<\/p>\n First, I could start by counting 20-plus million illegal aliens sponging off the fat of the land of U.S. citizen taxpayers. Another count would be the $10 billion a year price tag of costs beyond what the illegal aliens contribute to our economy. While we\u2019re on the subject of money, let\u2019s not forget the hospital closures and lowered wages of American citizens as a result of the liberal media and heartless and gutless politicians \u2014 not to even mention law enforcement neglect of its duties.<\/p>\n Arresting and deporting illegal aliens shouldn\u2019t even be part of the equation. Ignoring the law and ignoring the enforcement of current laws on illegal immigration account for much of the freeloading by illegal aliens, and the slave labor pool that business and industry relies upon for their source of \u201clabor prostitution\u201d at U.S. taxpayers\u2019 expense.<\/p>\n When someone steals my tax money, sends his or her kids to school at my expense and deprives my kids of a part-time job, I count that as criminal. Assimilate illegal aliens into our legal and economic system? I have tried to count the ways illegal aliens have of sidestepping the legal system.<\/p>\n I counted several dozen young females who crossed the border just in time to go into labor and have a \u201cjackpot\u201d baby at American expense to have an American child. The mother could sign up for welfare then go back across the border to live in Mexico but pick up her welfare check on the U.S. side of the border.<\/p>\n This is not hearsay, this is known fact. I count that as a pretty low criminal act. I wouldn\u2019t count on that person, those persons, to be an ideal citizen candidate. I wouldn\u2019t count on the \u201chardcore criminals\u201d to come forth and present themselves so they can be deported or jailed.<\/p>\n Pray tell, how do I count illegal alien criminals, ID thieves criminals and illegal drug dealers criminals and bypass the laws that let the illegal alien slip and slide his or her way into the U.S. system? He has proved himself a devious criminal with blatant disregard for U.S. law by being in the system in the first place. <\/p>\n About the only thing I would count that makes sense in the editorial \u201cTime, money wasted by ICE actions\u201d is the first idea that \u201cThe government should: secure the border.\u201d Being a nation of laws of enforcing the laws, now that\u2019s what counts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n