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To: KLP who wrote (7279)	4/25/2006 11:44:55 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

One of the things that have made this country great has been accepting the people who no longer belonged to their country of origin. I do some work with a group of refuges. They are currently poor and they devote most disposable dollars towards helping more of their extended families gain refuge immigration status. A good friend's father was a son of a Russian immigrant; the grandfather lived out his life morning the loss of his estate and status. The father made himself into a very successful industrial engineer; at times building parts of major weapon systems for the military. The third generation produced a dentist, computer programmer, a house wife and an architect. This is not an uncommon pattern for immigrant families. There is no question that we need to control our borders. There is no question that we have a right to control access to economic benefits of legal residency. There is a huge question about our resolve to do so. Regardless of what a person's position is about the number of immigrants, it is nonsensical to move forward without enforcing existing employment laws or changing them to reflect current exigencies.