Sunday, May 30, 2010

Letter to mayors re Arizona law

Following is a letter sent to me by an Arizona resident, written by another Arizona resident to mayors of U.S. cities who are advocating a boycott of Arizona. The writer's name is not published with the letter, although it appeared in the email I received.

"Mr. Mayor,

"I'm writing to you and other mayors who have elected to boycott the fine state of Arizona. You and your council members obviously know nothing of the people that live and work here, and the everyday financial, personal hardships we endure because of illegal immigration. Our deserts are being desecrated by trash left by illegal's, police officers are being killed by illegal's, our health system is over burdened by illegal's, our school system is over burdened by illegal's, and we are the kidnap capital in the United States because of illegal's.
"Yet our federal government can't seem to do anything except to allow the president of Mexico, to speak along side our president and then in front our congress and say that Arizona is full of racists. Here is a leader of another country who can't even run his own country right telling us how to run ours! And Mexico's own laws about illegal immigration are even more repressive than the United States and Arizona's laws!
"All I can say to you and others that have chosen not to back your fellow countrymen, shame on you. Your boycott has shown nothing more than your ignorance of SB1070, and the fact, you have chosen to hide your head in the sand when it come to the illegal immigration problem. Look around you Mr Mayor, how well is your city and state doing with illegal aliens? Are they really contributing to your city and state, or do find that maybe, there might be a problem?"

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