I received this e-mail today from my congressman...what do you think?

Question

Dear Friend,

Thank you for contacting me with your position on immigration policy. It is helpful to learn the views of my friends and neighbors in Northern California, and I appreciate having your input.

There is broad consensus in this country that our current immigration policies are flawed. The immigration system is broken and we must take action. We should begin by strongly enforcing existing laws, securing the border, cracking down on employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants, and devising a realistic way to deal with the 12 million people who are unlawfully in the U.S.

The debate about how best to address the problem of illegal immigration has been ongoing for quite some time and there are numerous proposals for alleviating the strain it puts on our borders and communities. However, I believe there are flaws in many of these plans to deal with illegal immigration. About two decades ago, when Congress last substantially altered immigration laws, the country saw a brief decline in the number of people entering this country illegally. Unfortunately, this was followed by a massive influx of illegal residents as desperate immigrants found ways to circumvent the new laws. We must ensure that the policies we enact now do not lay the groundwork for more unlawful entry in the future.

U.S. immigration policy must include new tools for law enforcement and the border patrol, as well as the funding they need to strongly enforce existing laws and secure the border. There are crucial steps we should take: we must increase the number of homeland security personnel guarding our borders and give them the resources they need.
Our border and immigration agents can't enforce existing immigration laws because of paltry funding levels and we should untie the hands of our men and women in uniform. We also should inoculate businesses from deceitful employees who falsify identification records by implementing a permanent program to verify worker immigration status. And we need to change the way we process legalization applications to clear the years of backlog and shorten turnaround time.

You will be pleased to learn I am an original cosponsor of sweeping immigration security legislation that will go a long way toward solving many of our nation's immigration problems. H.R. 4088, the SAVE Act of 2007, is a three part bipartisan immigration bill focused on enforcement of homeland security laws aimed at combating illegal immigration, terrorist immigration, and weapon and drug trade, while providing common sense protections for American workers and businesses. The bill dramatically increases funding for border security programs, the investigation of illegal immigrant and terrorist activities inside the U.S, and fully implements the Department of Homeland Security's E-Verify employer and worker protection pilot program. E-Verify allows businesses to quickly and accurately determine the employment eligibility and immigration status of new employees, which protects employers and American workers from deceitful employees who falsify identification records.

I am also an ardent opponent of so called amnesty proposals that would naturalize large segments of the illegal immigrant population, but I have heard from many agricultural businesses, ranchers, farmers, high-tech companies, and small business owners in my district who not only would be damaged if the status quo continues, many of them would go out of business. This is something that I cannot support, but I believe we have some common sense options. As Congress considers future immigration legislation, I will factor your recommendations into my decision making.

Thank you again for sharing your views. I am proud to serve California's Eleventh District, and I am committed to working hard for you. If you would like more information about the issues I am working on in Congress, I encourage you to visit my website at www.mcnerney.house.gov.





Sincerely,

Jerry McNerney
Member of Congress

Too funny.....Yep, Feinstein & Boxer's reasponce was alot different.....don't worry, this will be last term for them.

Answer 1

I am impressed you got a response..probably was one letter to remember to get such a response.

Answer 2

check the internet the fence is being built and it's working, they are not doing catch and release they are processing illegal immigrants immediately charging them with illegal entry to the U.S. at the border and deporting them, they are fining and giving jail time to employers who hire illegal immigrants, ICE is going to sporting events, grocery stores, private homes to pick up illegal immigrants, michael chertoff is preparing to go after the nipple headed judge in california that is blocking the no match letters. local police and jails are contacting ICE to check on arrestees immigration status, 150 illegal brazilians per day are leaving the U.S. to return home. an article i posted the other day said that democrats are itching to allow amnesty for the voters they will garner. hispanic groups are putting tremendous pressure on them to do so but the junior politicians know full well that unless they are tough on illegal immigration we will vote them out. it's hard to support something that will not get you the number of necessary votes to carry you through an entire political career. i have posted all this information. i read the internet news daily and attach what i find as links. not fast enough i know but progress. i'm doing my part.

Answer 3

He sounds like a good man! The SAVE Act isn't perfect, but it is better than nothing, but I don't think the lieberals in the Senate will allow this bill to pass. Reid, Obama, Clinton, Biden, and Dodd do not want any bill to pass that La Raza will view unfavorably. Unfortunately, the Dimocrat party has become a whore for La Raza. How sad!

The SAVE Act: http://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=9232

Answer 4

Good for him, but what do we do with Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi?
In order to get this under control we first need to re-register every voter in California and make them show verifiable ID. With LA, San Francisco, and a host of other cities under illegal alien control, our electoral process is in shambles. The inmates are running the asylum and the california Government is complicit.

Answer 5

Now this is the kind of response I like to see. I wrote my rep, Boxer, and even Feinstein, and the response was, well, you can imagine.

Let's hope the majority in Congress start to see this the same way as Jerry.

Answer 6

Jerry McNerney wrote the kind of letter that Feinstein and Bozer should take note to come next election

Answer 7

I am against illegal immigration and against amnesty, but I would not vote for someone just based on that one issue.

I would need to know a whole lot more about how he views things.

1) his view on our continued occupation of iraq
2) his view on protecting constitutional rights of americans
3) his view on improving education for all americans
4) his view on improving accessibility of reasonably low cost health care to all americans
5) his view on taxes, whether he is for further tax cuts, stay the same, or go back to pre Bush tax levels
6) his view on lobbysts and whether we need to pass more laws to make lawmakers more independent of them.
7) his view on balancing the budget by making sure the govt has enough revenues but also to cut out wasteful spending...especially spending that does not actually benefit american citizens here at home.

etc......

But....he has the right stand on immigration, so I look at him favorably as of now, but would need to know way more.

Answer 8

This Congressman has shown signs of being a real American! WOW! I'd keep him in office as the others are just too stupid to live! Long live Jerry Mc Nerney!

Answer 9

Sounds like a man of good judgment!
Go Jerry!

Answer 10

Better than what My congresswoman said to me. As to Boxer and Feinstein, you know there are too many nut cases in California that still will vote for them.