Expression of a Concerned Citizen

Address Immigration Policies

 January 16, 2012 

This nation's immigration policies need to be addressed beyond illegal, amnesty and deportation. Other issues add to why out-of-control immigration problems the federal and state governments could easily correct.

·         Implement for workers an E-Verify type of accounting system that will eliminate illegal workers in the country.

·         Reduce numbers of incoming immigrants for citizenship and eliminate chain migration that will balance and control country population growth.

·         Enforce the real intent of the 14th amendment by eliminating citizenship to babies born in America to noncitizen mothers.

·         English must be made the official language of the country to make American language and culture assimilation — the melting pot — work.

·         Approve, implement and enforce total security across our borders that adds to national security.

·         Require all states to enforce federal immigration laws.

·         Support and implement the illegal-immigrant attrition concept by approving the worker E-Verify identification system rather than amnesty or deportation.

This nation's poor, weak and outdated immigration laws need a 21st-century update to make immigration fair, controllable, accountable and workable — so that it maintains the rule of law and our more than two centuries of united American culture.

To date, federal and state governments have been passive on immigration. The question is, will Florida voters this 2012 election allow federal and state politicians to remain passive on major immigration issues?

WALT BACK, Lakeland