{"id":796,"date":"2007-06-03T06:34:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T11:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=796"},"modified":"2007-06-03T06:34:37","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T11:34:37","slug":"letters-to-my-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"Letters to My Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that it will do any good, but I finally sent the following correspondence to my two pro-illegal immigrant Senators:<br \/>\nI do not agree with any proposals to grant amnesty to the 12 million+ illegal aliens in the United States.<br \/>\nI do agree that the border needs to be better protected, and that employers who hire illegals should be punished.<br \/>\nHow is granting immunity to those who have entered this country illegally different from rewarding any other kind of law-breaking activity?<br \/>\nWould you, for example, agree to release murderers and child rapists from prison because businesses &#8220;need&#8221; them to do work that other Americans allegedly refuse?<br \/>\nMexico is a wealthy country, but its wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few.  Mexican citizens should work on improving conditions in their own country rather than bringing their economic and social problems to ours.<br \/>\nFinally, I resent the anti-US attitudes expressed by those pro-illegal groups who demonstrate against our laws.  The Southwestern part of the US no more &#8220;belongs&#8221; to Mexico than New England &#8220;belongs&#8221; to the UK.<br \/>\nThis Cape Cod voter is strongly and emphatically opposed to any legislation that provides a means to citizenship to those who are here illegally.  I do my own housework, yard work and hire US citizens when I need help from a skilled trades person.  Businesses should do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that it will do any good, but I finally sent the following correspondence to my two pro-illegal immigrant Senators: I do not agree with any proposals to grant amnesty to the 12 million+ illegal aliens in the United States. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=796\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}