All, for those of you who did not read the guest column in this week’s AJC from U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, I link to it here from Jerry’s site ( thanks Jerry). Below is my letter to the editor at the AJC that is published today. I cannot say it enough, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO SEND LETTERS TO EDITORS OF OUR LOCAL NEWSPAPERS, THE LETTERS SECTION IS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT ELECTED OFFICIALS READ…OR SHOULD BE.

Specter doesn’t get it on crisis

Arlen Specter is hilarious proof – again – of the disconnect on the illegal immigration crisis between the American people and those elected to represent and protect them in Washington. He clearly does not “get it”.

Americans will never again stand quietly by while politicians reward illegal aliens with amnesty and green cards.

His clueless admission that taking the millions of illegal aliens out of ‘fugitive status’ must be the price of Congress appropriating the money to begin to secure American borders and the American workplace is astonishing. And totally un acceptable.

No one thought that Bush and those in Congress who ask “how high?” when their corporate masters say “jump” would give up on amnesty, but few thought them brazen enough to begin the warm-up process just a month after the American people made their own position so clear.

( text that was edited out of original letter to AJC, I like my version better –Most illegals could care less about American citizenship. They come for the money. Jobs that pay five times as much as at home, free education and medical care in their own language and near immunity to prosecution is understandably hard to resist. The criminal employers want the bargain priced labor at any cost…including their children’s national future.)

That Specter has been sent out to start the amnesty attempt so soon brilliantly illustrates the importance it holds to the Washington elite…the American people be damned. ( End of printed letter)

( Edtited out of original letter – This should be interesting to watch during the coming presidential campaigns…how many ways can a candidate – and an editorial page editor – be for legalization but against amnesty? We look forward to counting.)

D.A. King

King is president of the Dustin Inman Society, a Marietta -based non-profit organization actively opposed to illegal immigration.