Our friend John Litland got this letter published in the (paywall) MDJ today. He nailed it. The original letter to which he replies is posted below. Letters to the editor make a difference and serve to counter the liberal, open borders media.<\/p>\n
NOTE<\/strong>: We encourage everyone to take advantage of this no-cost way of going around the press ( especially the biased and agenda-driven AJC and Associated Press) to make your voice heard.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Marietta Daily Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n Letters<\/p><\/blockquote>\n August 17, 2016<\/p>\n DEAR EDITOR:<\/p>\n In his plea for \u201cimmigration reform,\u201d MDJ letter writer and self-described \u201cbusiness leader\u201d Don Aldridge of Roswell informs us that we have \u201can immigration problem,\u201d a \u201clabor shortage\u201d and missed opportunities on business and more tax revenues. \u201cImmigrants are good for our economy\u201d he writes, as if the U.S. somehow has a shortage of immigrants. We don\u2019t. Even after many years of D.A. King\u2019s educational writing here, maybe there are still folks out there who don\u2019t know the USA imports more immigrants than any nation in the world. We take in a million legal immigrants each year. My wife is one of them.<\/p>\n We also import almost that many guest workers every year and from what I can see, once they are here, we don\u2019t make them leave as agreed. I learned from D.A. King and confirmed on my own that almost half the illegal aliens here now came as guest workers and fearlessly stayed past their visa expiration dates. Some of the 9\/11 terrorists did exactly that.<\/p>\n Aldridge also says we should \u201creform to an expanded immigration system that \u201cgrants those who want to contribute to the economic success of America the ability to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n It looks like Aldridge is spouting the same worn business demand for another immigration amnesty and for an unlimited supply of cheaper-than-now labor \u2014 open borders.<\/p>\n I disagree. The assimilation process of the often-cited great wave of immigration from the beginning of the last century came about due to a sharp reduction in immigration from about 1924 to the mid-sixties. This break not only allowed American wages to rise \u2014 thereby creating the now vanishing middle class <\/a>\u2014 but also created an atmosphere of common culture, language and patriotic unity in our country.<\/p>\n Aldridge’s\u2019s letter came a day after federal data was released that Americans\u2019 wages are still dropping<\/a>. The dramatic news was buried in an Aug. 9 report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing yet another 2 percent drop in wages since December.<\/p>\n Ignoring howls from business leaders whose biggest expense is wages, most of us understand the laws of supply and demand. The concept that we have a worker shortage <\/a>is ridiculous and we resent the fact that all such \u201cimmigration reform\u201d demands ignore the American \u2014 including immigrant \u2014 workers who are desperate for better jobs and higher wages.<\/p>\n We should reduce immigration, enforce our laws and protect our own workers.<\/p>\n John Litland<\/p>\n Marietta<\/p><\/blockquote>\n