Another one for DeWine

I'm not letting my senators off the hook on this latest "get tough on immigration" sham trying to soften up the voters for another run at a general amnesty. I dashed off a letter to Mike DeWine this morning and will send another to George Voinovich a little later.

The letter:

Senator DeWine:

I know I sound like a broken record, but there can be no planning for the illegal immigrants already in this country until the flow over the borders is SHUT OFF. As history has shown, amnesty and guest worker programs ENCOURAGE illegal immigration thanks to our country's porous borders.

If you and your fellow Republicans are unable to grasp the will of your voters on this issue, then we will find someone more in tune with our wishes. You owe your position to a lot of individual voters, after all, not to some some higher power.

I must say that you (and the President for whom I voted) also insult my intelligence if you think a couple VERY HIGHLY PUBLICIZED immigration raids is going to convince me you're serious about enforcing existing immigration law. If the big raid at the pallet manufacturer was intended as a harbinger of things to come, you also should have made sure the majority of those arrested were not released, within hours of their arrest, on the promise they'd return for deportation proceedings.

Are you truly so insulated in Washington that the blatant and transparent nature of this "immigration photo-op" passed muster as a serious stab at enforcement?

Well, pass this on to the President, too...the people who elected you want the borders closed to illegal immigration. We don't want a photo-op; we don't want a feel-good guest worker program; and we sure as heck don't want to give amnesty to lawbreakers. Close the borders...then we'll rationally discuss what to do with the illegals already here.

The Rantmeister

Response from the DeWine Email Respondomatic expected in 3...2...1...