PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Deportations Would Fix Many Woes

Sunday, February 3, 2013

I second Bill Orton’s letter (Public Viewpoint, Jan. 19) regarding Greg Harton’s (Jan. 14) attempt to portray folks as “blinded by self-interest” if they don’t support more and more property taxes and never-ending school expansions.

I am a Harton-described “tight-fisted pennypincher” who spends more than 70 percent of my Social Security “wealth” on a monthly mortgage and an additional 7 percent to pay my annual school taxes, which total more than a mortgage payment.

I haven’t had school-age children for 30 years and I don’t mind helping my neighbor with his children’s education, but more than40 percent of the students in Northwest Arkansas schools are “English language learners,” which is liberal speak for illegal aliens, and I definitely do not like more than 40 percent of my ever-rising taxes going to benefit criminals.

To make matters worse, to get re-elected, our first amateur-American president rewarded all the illegal aliens who’ve already stolen our tax money for their education, by offering them amnesty and a job.

What does that tell future immigration law-breakers?

It says: Keep coming and I’ll reward you, too, and, by the way, I eliminated the 287(g) program so local lawmen can no longer identify or detain you.

So what do we tell the loved ones of the half dozen of our local citizens who have been murdered by young illegal aliens?

Do we say that it is OK because the president did get re-elected and even more burglars, drug dealers, gang bangers, and murderers are on the way and he wants to give them amnesty also? Well, unless they kill someone and get caught, and then you lucky taxpayers can take care of them, too.

I agree with Mr. Orton, users of a service should pay for it, and further that alien law-breakers should be excluded from all services. School boards should charge 40 percent of the cost to Mexico or to Obama; he’s already cost us some $20 million on golf and vacations and is wasting $50 million on his extravagant party in Washington. Surely, he can afford to educate the illegals in Arkansas he has refused to deport.

If immigration laws were enforced we would have 40 percent fewer children in our schools and would not need new schools and perhaps there would even be funds to repair the half -ravel, half-chip and seal pot-holed road I have to travel whenever we leave the house.

To borrow Greg Harton’s final words, “That’s a road I really don’t want to go down.”

PHIL WARNER

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Opinion, Pages 10 on 02/03/2013