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Rule of law in peril
What laws do the rest of us get to break? The USA is a country of laws and legal immigration.
Right now, the burden of cost and enforcement is on each of the 50 states to create and enforce laws.
For over 40 years, people have come to the USA both legally and illegally and enjoyed schooling, health care and other services paid by taxpayers.
It is a rude slap in the face to citizens and those who legally became citizens and legal residents to allow people here illegally any benefits that are supposed to be for those who paid for them.
No other country in the world will allow people to waltz across their borders and steal services.
We need to get past the politics and keep the USA safe. If Obama thought illegal immigrants would not be Democrats, this problem would be solved. He and the Democrats are only playing politics.
Those who overstay visas are just as illegal as those who slink across our borders.
Again, what laws do the rest of us get to choose to break?
Jennifer Wise
Spokane