Bill Defeated, U.S. Won
To The Editor:

The American people won a great victory when the U.S. Senate defeated the Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007 (S.1348 ) on Thursday, June 28, 2007. This deceptively named immigration reform bill was nothing but a travesty and a suicide pact for America.

This bill was supported by an obscene alliance of leftwing Democrats eager to recruit millions of illegal aliens into the Democratic Party, and Republican corporate plutocrats, eager to obtain a cheap labor supply whom they could pay far less than American workers

In return for a few token measures to strengthen border control, designed to deceive conservatives, the Senate bill would have granted amnesty and citizenship to 12 to 20 million illegal aliens already within our country, and, even far worse, would have established a "guest worker" program that would, according to congressional estimates, have allowed 66 to 103 million aliens from Third World countries to enter our country and become citizens over the next 20 years.

Such an influx of aliens would overwhelm our schools, hospitals and welfare system, greatly increasing the tax burden of our people and, at the same time, depress the salaries of American workers who would be forced to compete with alien labor for low-paying jobs.

Even worse, allowing 66 to 103 million Third World aliens to become citizens would reduce white Americans to a minority and totally destroy the Western character of our nation. We would no longer have a common Western Culture but would be well on our way to becoming a balkenized, chaotic Third World country.

Fortunately, we have seen what Middle America can accomplish when it is aroused and informed on a major public issue. It was the American people, making their strong opposition known in an unprecedented number of letters, phone calls, e-mails and faxes to Congress, who finally overcame the might of the political establishment and defeated this bill.

Hopefully, there will be no further attempts at "immigration reform" until after the 2008 presidential elections.

Those U.S. Senators such as Ted Kennedy (D- Mass.), Harry Reid (D- Nevada), John McCain (R- Ariz.), John Kyl ( R- Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R- S.C.), Trent Lott (RMiss.), and our two Senators from New York, Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton, who supported this treasonous immigration reform bill, disgraced themselves, and should not be reelected to office nor, as in the case of Hillary Clinton, allowed to attain any higher office.
Yours sincerely,
John Kramer
Forest Hills