Health & Fitness
LETTER: To Rep. McGovern on Illegal Immigration and the CLEAR Act
Congress should pass the CLEAR Act to help our County Sheriffs and other law enforcement officials enforce immigration laws.
With the horrible death of the Milford motorcyclist at the hands of an illegal immigrant etched in my memory, and with our brave County Sheriffs taking on an oblivious Governor Patrick on the Secure Communities issue, I thought I would write this letter to Rep. Jim Mc Govern. Mc Govern, like Patrick has not been at all helpful in enforcing immigration laws over the years:
Representative Jim McGovern
U.S. House of Representatives, 438 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
By cosponsoring H.R. 100, the CLEAR Act, you can show true leadership in Congress — and support common-sense enforcement measures that a majority of Americans want. Local law enforcement agencies are asking for more federal help and you can give them this help by supporting the CLEAR Act.
Our borders are dangerously porous. They are an invitation to criminals, smugglers, terrorists, and other lawbreakers. Compounding this critical homeland security breach is the fact that, once such persons have successfully entered our country, the likelihood that they will be apprehended is even lower than at the border, due to the woefully inadequate federal enforcement presence in the interior.
The CLEAR Act, among its other provisions, recognizes local law enforcement's authority to help enforce immigration law, improves information sharing between local law enforcement agencies and the federal government, and requires the federal government to expeditiously remove criminal illegal aliens.
This legislation is made even more important because President Obama has defunded the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) which compensated localities for their apprehension and detention of criminal illegal aliens. The CLEAR Act would reauthorize this program and ensure that local law enforcement agencies that detain criminal illegal aliens are reimbursed.
SCAAP has broad bipartisan support and it needs to be reauthorized. Please do all you can to protect local communities by cosponsoring H.R. 100, the 2011 CLEAR Act.
Expecting your support,
Mr. J. Bruce Gabriel
Note: I thank NumbersUSA, a non partisan immigration watchdog group for their help in writing this letter.
