The recent law signed by the governor of Arizona is her first step addressing the problem of illegals in that state. Does this law go too far or not enough?

The boarders must be secure, even if that entails bringing up the National Guard. What’s a solution? Who is responsible?

These questions should be given to legal immigrants, who chose to adopt America as their homeland. To have genuine immigration reform without racial profiling, legals must step up to the plate and do their part as Americans, proving their loyalty as American citizens, rooting out the law-breakers.

Legals are in a unique position to know, and do know, who the illegals are and where, and this knowledge and abuse of law encourages illegal entry. Aiding and abetting law-breaking is a shared guilt by the legal immigrant community.

Taking a page from law enforcement, let’s put a face on those misfits, regardless of national origin, and institute a payment for capture and conviction of law breakers. In other words, a bounty of dollar signs.

To solve immigration, we must have the help from those newly adopted Americans. If not, all legislation is doomed to failure and America sinks into a criminal state that cannot stand with anarchy in its midst.

— Leroy Heil, Jeffersonville

As time goes by, some things change, some stay the same. Some people view changes in the negative, and at the same time, other people see changes as positive.

A change that has been ongoing since this county was founded is immigration. In the beginning, there was no such thing as illegal immigration. I’m sure the American Indian wished they had had immigration laws.

One of the things that has not changed is our hatred of new immigrants. The Germans, Irish, Polish, Italians and Hungarians were all hated immigrants when they first arrived on our shores. The new kid on the block it seems are never welcomed, and always tested. We seem to have measured each new group with our own cultural standards, a very small test to be sure.

Today, instead of European immigrants, we have had, starting 30 years ago, Laotians, Cambodians and Vietnamese. Russian Jews came along about 10 years later. All the above groups went from English as a second language and citizenship courses to living in apartments to homeowners.

Now, we have people from India and any number of Arab countries. South of the border, we have numerous countries represented in this country. All the above, again, were hated groups when they arrived.

All, since the start of this country, came for various reasons. Some with dreams of starting a business, others were encouraged by businesses to come, because they wanted cheap labor. Others came because of repressive dictators or no freedom of religion. All have the same dreams of opportunity and hope.

At the present, we have those who want stronger immigration laws. While this is being fought, realism sets in with others.

Our largest population is 60 years old and older. This large population will be exiting the work force from the present and over the next 15 years. Without a large surplus of immigrants, who will work at our banks, auto plants, computer industries, city, state and federal government agencies?

Just think, folks, with the sweeping changes in the complexion of America, 40 years from now, a son or daughter of Pakistani immigrants could be president, and vice-president could be from Guatemala.

Is that really any different than German, Irish or African-American presidents and vice-presidents?

— Steven Fetter, Jeffersonville

Illegal immigration costing education

Addressing illegal immigration will save school funding cuts.

There has been a 100 percent increase in illegal immigration into Indiana since 2000. There also has been an even larger increase in Limited English Speaking students from 17,194 to 45,885 from 2000 till 2009.

In 2008, at an Immigration Summer Study committee meeting, Lauren Harvey the Assistant Director of the Office of English Language Learning and Migrant Education, testified the annual cost of public education for each student is $11,400.

Although we cannot stop illegal immigrant students from attending our schools, we can stop their parents from settling here. Indiana needs to implement the E-verify program for all new employees‚ statewide, and demand all employers who hold state contracts E-verify all current employees.

The E-verify program is currently being used by 14 states in one form or another and is very cost efficient. The E-verify program is over 97 percent accurate in keeping illegal immigrants out of our workforce when enforced.

If, and only if, Indiana passes and enforces the E-verify program, we will not only keep illegal immigrants from settling here, we will not have to educate their children since they will not accompany their parents here illegally.

There are some hard choices to be made this year in Indianapolis. I don’t think cutting school funding $300 million is a wise decision, especially from urban school budgets that currently lack much needed funds.

Illegal immigration is a state problem caused by the federal government. Now, we are witnessing just how bad illegal immigration is costing the Indiana citizen as well as all Americans.

— Greg Serbon, State Director, Indiana Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement, Crown Point.

Now they are going to urge another travesty of COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM OR 'AMNESTY.' on the overtaxed American people. It almost defies any rational logic for these morons introducing immigration reform, when 15 million Americans are out scouting for a job. Due to neglect of decades of pandering politicians to non-enforcement of our undermanned, poorly constructed border fence or the 1986 immigration law. It is my decision to pass it along to all readers, otherwise it may not get the necessary publicity to show the disintegration of a society, culture and even our language. Its almost incomprehensible that University professors would abet and condone illegal immigration with designing GPS systems, making it easier for illegal immigrants to steal American jobs. But then the majority that are teaching the Students are Liberal-Marxist, left wingers.

These people must live in a bubble that think illegal immigrants do not have an impact on American citizens.

You have watched an economy tank, with outlandish reasoning, but no one is talking about the facts:

The main serious issue is irreversible Overpopulation:

It is imperative that we realize that if we keep on allowing the importation of foreign nationals on the scale that is happening today. The consequences as stated by the [United States Population Projections: 2000 to 2050 by Jennifer M. Ortman and Christine E. Guarneri of the Census Bureau] a greater number of migrants arriving in the United States will correspond to a larger increase in the size of the total population. Under the assumption of a high level of net international migration, the population is expected to grow to 458 million by 2050. The the late U.S. Senator Teddy Kennedy, the United States added 100 million to its population via immigration. Before that time, we enjoyed 194 million in 1963. Today, we slog forward with 309 million on our way to 438 million in four decades, said Frosty Wooldridge, an acknowledged columnist. Poverty and hunger is rampant now in America, with shortages of drinking water and electricity outages are our dismal future, if we don't halt illegal immigration. For the record thousands of Vietnam warriors are homeless, veterans of other wars, fatherless Mothers with children and Senior citizens on low income, worrying about sharing their pitiful pensions with Bush's Social Security funds, that are on-hold for totalization with the corrupt government South of the border.

1. Emergency room closures
a) There was once a superb safety net for emergency healthcare to indigent Americans, that has dried up in many communities, because the hospitals could not afford to service them any longer, some would have us believe that illegal immigration had nothing to do with it, when hundreds and thousands of undocumented residents flooded the doors, and in many cases as a source of primary care.

b) American born women under the age of 50 are no longer offered mammograms because of the cost, even though it is factual that more women under the age of 50 are being detected with suspicious findings, but rather then taking illegal residents off the rolls of CDP and other grants to detection, they cut off Americans.

2. Welfare
The vast majority of illegal parents to citizen children, flock to another safety net dedicated to protecting Americans from physical and financial detriment, where billions of dollars flow in, and do not circulate in the US because many of the dollars are shipped to their native countries to support the poor people there. Huge numbers of illegal immigrants file tax returns using phony Social Security numbers to cash in on the federal Earned Income Tax Credit, thanks to lax government management said Ed Rubenstein, a financial analyst and economist. 'As a result, illegal aliens actually receive the EITC at even greater rates than legal immigrants,. The IRS makes little or no effort to verify the authenticity of Social Security numbers, or existence of Dependant children. This makes it possible for illegal immigrants to claim children still living in Mexico as dependents and for parents living illegally in the U.S. to file separate returns claiming the same children as dependents under the EITC. The EITC was created to boost work incentives for poor families with children. Childless households received a maximum $438 payment in 2008, while the maximum available to families with two or more children was $4,824. From a distance, the EITC looks like a winner,he said. The devil is in the details. For starters, the program is dominated by fraud. Illegal immigrant households are more than three times as likely to receive EITC than native-born American households.' Rubenstein said

3. Education
American children that should be preparing for the global competitive market, are being held back educationally because primary education is now catering to bring children that are further behind up to speed. Class room overcrowding, results in the hiring of under staffed, under qualified teachers to manage a baby sitting sector rather than educating.

4. Housing
The media did not cover the facts that thousands of illegal immigrants owned homes that went into the red, and they were allowed to simply walk away, while Americans in the same situation had to undergo financial ruin, bankruptcy, and other unfortunate situation. Non profits and other organizations like NACA helped these people get in the door, and tax payers are footing the bill.

5. Infrastructure
With any degree of logic, any individual will understand, if you design a freeway, bridge, building, house, etc. designed to support a certain number of people, will accelerates structure corrosion, if you add more abundantly. Place your attention on the History International TV cable channel. Starting this week , they are showing 'THE CRUMBLING OF AMERICA' .Our country is 12 trillion dollars in debt, because we support the rest of the world. Our nation is progressively turning into a third world ghetto and no longer a creditor nation.

6. Traffic
What used to take Americans a few minutes to get to and from work, has been doubled if not tripled which takes quality time from families, drives up cost of oil, and gasoline, because of the buy and demand nature of business, adds more pollution to the air, and reduces spending in local shops because of the time lost.

7. Crime
The cost of housing convicted non citizens would have paid for the border fence twice, added more border personnel on the northern and southern borders to boot. which would be an added protection considering America is a marked nation.

ID theft, is the number one violation, because it defrauds the federal government when non existent socials are in play, and drastically affects the quality of life for Americans that are victimized, because there is no legislation to protect American citizens from the consequences of the governments failure to protect them from collection agencies, dept collectors, credit card companies that did not have secure networks, and the social security administration that did not flag socials used twice or more times for employment, which pays more on the back end. Even I was--NOT --Immune to ID theft, as somebody in Dallas Texas was using my Social at a some kind of private investigative office. I contacted the SSA passing on these details, so they could clear up this mess.

8. Assimilation
Many illegal immigrants have no desire to assimilate with American culture, I mean look at Mr. Gutierrez, who fights harder for the rights non citizens then he does for his native constituents. Many fly non American flags, which is a basic slap in the face to Americans that would support reform otherwise.

9. English
Our elected officials have turned a deaf ear to Americans that are blatantly being discriminated against when companies policy hiring bilingual only employees, there are only too populations of citizens in America that are allowed this unfortunate bias, ex-cons, and non dual language speaking Americans.

10. Wages
How many reports do you need, before you realize many unscrupulous employers are using the illegal alien situation to drive down wages and benefits? How many small contractors have been undercut in bids for jobs, only to find that their competitor is using foreign labor?

To every elected officials that puts a greater onus on protecting the non legal rights of non citizens above the legal rights of Americans are in the wrong business, and should consider in the ethical reasoning of national security, populous representation, simply because it was the populous that sent you to office to represent their best interest, to step down, seek office in your hearts respective country, and allow individuals with the same passion you have for your people, to represent Americans with the same tenacity.

Thank you Mario for this fact sheet, along with my contributions. Tell everybody you know who condemns any possibility of forcing on the American people another AMNESTY, to call their ignorant lawmaker. The Capitol Switchboard's telephone number is 202-224-3121. REMEMBER TO SEND IN YOUR 28Cent POSTCARDS NOW! WE MUST DEFEAT THIS IMMIGRATION REFORM PACKAGE. Those who believe in America’s survival, without OVERPOPULATION as stated by the US Census bureau better read facts at NUMBERSUSA not the lies spawned by open border entities. Those who want details of corruption in WASHINGTON and state government go to JUDICIAL WATCH. Overpopulation, traffic chaos, infrastructure erosion should go to CAPSWEB.