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Dear Editor:
So, my fellow immigrants, the Department of Justice has decided that we are
a fair target in deportation game because we did not notify the
headquarters about our move last week Or was it the move four years
ago? That in addition to mulling the idea of immigration law enforcement
by local police and the concept of profiling people based on their
accent. Presumably treating us all like suspects is supposed to make us
more patriotic.
Because INS is not getting any money or people to process this information,
it is very likely that the flood of it will never be entered into any
database and some forms will indeed be lost. Neither has it occured to
Justice Department that credit reporting agencies know where you live even
if you have a single credit card. Put the two together and what emerges is
this: this game is not about tracking people at all. It is about imposing
additional burden on law-abiding and tax-paying immigrants and about giving
the general public an impression that something is being done about
improving security.
So what do I say to this? I say: good. Let's give it to them, fellow
immigrants! Let's send that darn AR-11 to the headquarters every time we
move, or maybe four or five times per move. Maybe even every
week? Sending it via certified mail and requesting a receipt not only
covers your own hide in case all those forms get lost anyway, but also
ensures that INS has even more work. Let's bury that mail room under piles
and piles of paper. Maybe then John Ashcroft and his cronies will come to
their senses.
I understand that the INS employees in headquarters mail room had nothing
to say in the matter, and I feel for them, but what else can we, loyal
taxpayers but non-voters, do? We could, of course, sell our property and
businesses, take the money, and move back to our countries of
birth. Wouldn't that leave a void in tax revenues and the pool of
available labor? Department of Justice needs to stop treating immigrants
like scapegoats. Timothy McVeigh, Theodore Kaczynski, and that kid that
placed mailbox pipe bombs in a smiley face pattern are all native-born
American citizens and terrorists.
Outraged in Texas
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