Open Letter to Rep. Niki Tsongas on Illegal Immigration and Other Matters

Representative Niki Tsongas 
U.S. House of Representatives 1607 Longworth House Office Building 
Washington, DC 205150001 

Dear Representative Tsongas,

The biggest draw for foreigners who try and come to the United States illegally is a job. By requiring that all employers use E-Verify, the United States can take a giant step towards ending all illegal immigration. I support mandatory E-Verify, I urge you to do so as well. Eighty-three percent of likely U.S. voters think every U.S. business should use E-Verify. The states are rightfully filling the responsibility gap left by the federal government by passing their own E-Verify laws. However, U.S. businesses deserve a level playing field across the nation. It is not right for law-abiding businesses in one state to have to compete with unscrupulous employers in another. Every business should make it their business to hire a legal workforce. That's good for American workers and American business. Please work with your House colleagues to make E-Verify mandatory for all employers and help end illegal immigration.

In reference to the extravagant and overly complicated Obamacare law, also known as "ACA," I hope you will take to heart the following words spoken by President Calvin Coolidge in his fourth annual message of December 7, 1926: "Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. But the results of extravagance are ruinous. The property of the country, like the freedom of the country, belongs to the people of the country. They have not empowered their Government to take a dollar of it except for a necessary public purpose. But if the Constitution conferred such right, sound economics would forbid it. Nothing is more destructive of the progress of the Nation than government extravagance. It means an increase in the burden of taxation, dissipation of the returns from enterprise, a decrease in the real value of wages, with ultimate stagnation and decay. The whole theory of our institutions is based on the liberty and independence of the individual. He is dependent on himself for support and therefore entitled to the rewards of his own industry. He is not to be deprived of what he earns that others may be benefited by what they do not earn. What he saves through his private effort is not to be wasted by Government extravagance."

Mr. J Bruce Gabriel