Illegal Immigration is very bad for our country in several ways.

• First, National Security. It is far too easy for people to just walk across the border from Mexico or Canada. Some terrorists have been KNOWN to cross this way. Some have been caught and found to be planning terrorist activities here. Our CIA uncovered and stopped a plot to set off a deadly biological device in a stadium in Los Angeles, California. We were fortunate and lucky to catch those few. How many more have crossed that we did not catch?

• Our schools have hundreds of thousands of illegal children in our class rooms and our property taxes have to keep rising to try to handle all of them. It slows down the progress of the classrooms trying to accommodate them because of their lack of understanding of the English language.

• Our county hospitals cannot turn them away and their treatment winds up being paid for by the rest of us in one form or another.

I am all for LEGAL monitored immigration but we simply cannot assimilate into our economy, schools, and hospitals, the vast millions coming across the border illegally.

Our police are NOT ALLOWED to arrest them and turn them over to the border patrol.

Our government in the past has given amnesty to millions of illegals, who then petition to bring more relatives.

The current government wants to do this again at worst and at best wants to just leave them alone and not try to send them back or do much to stop them from illegal entry.

Our culture cannot withstand this rapid immigration. We need to build better fences and devices to stop the illegal crossings and more border patrols, perhaps even military patrols of the borders. We must do whatever it takes to secure our borders.

Captain Ron Caraway

Houston, TX