2/21/2008 Gwinnett Daily Post

There is widespread support for enforcing immigration laws

Kudos to D.A. King and his column (“When it comes to immigration laws, enforcement works,” Perspective, Feb. 17), which addresses the 287 (g) program and this common-sense principal: When it comes to immigration laws, enforcement works.

I would like to take Mr. King’s message one step further. Our founding fathers envisioned the states as laboratories for experimentation. Given the federal government’s dereliction of duty, several states have responded to the will of their constituents and passed tough legislation aimed at the illegal alien community. Within weeks of the legislation taking effect, there were numerous reports of illegal aliens leaving those states either for their home country or for states that were perceived to be friendlier.

In the face of significant budget shortfalls, Rhode Island is engaged in bipartisan debates to deal with its illegal alien population. Clearly, their legislators and governor no longer buy in to the sophistry that these people represent a net plus to the economy.

I attended the Commission hearings last summer during which Gwinnett’s illegal alien ordinance was passed. There were so many proponents (including legal immigrants) of the ordinance that not all could speak, but their message was generally the same: Their love for a country and county that operates by the rule of law. There were two opponents. Both were lawyers. Neither were county residents. They spoke of hate and lawsuits against the county.

How ironic that the two people who took an oath to uphold the law are so afraid of it.

– Terry Fouchey
(Buford, Ga.) HERE.