Immigration laws protect law-abiding
While we are only middle-class Americans seeking justice in our own country, we hope to add our voice in opposition to the well-funded illegal alien lobby’s war on immigration enforcement. In their column “Detention requests warrantless” (Atlanta Forward, Nov. 6), Azadeh Shahshahani and Adelina Nicholls describe implementation of the federal Secure Communities program as having “troubling patterns … that involved racial discrimination, and indiscriminate targeting of immigrants.”
While not as strict as immigration enforcement in Mexico, the Secure Communities program works toward locating illegal aliens who have landed in the nation’s jails because of arrests for additional crimes. All foreign inmates’ fingerprints are shared with DHS. The perpetual race-baiting from the anti-enforcement left is not fooling anyone. Identifying illegals because of their local arrests is designed to have them deported before they commit even more crimes, like murder or rape.
Killed by an illegal alien in 2000, our only child, Dustin Inman, is forever 16 because his killer was released after previous contact with local law enforcement. We fully understand the concept of “family separation.” Shahshahani’s and Nichols’ shameless mission to end common-sense enforcement is spitting on the grave of our beloved son Dustin and in the faces of the hundreds of thousands of American families who have lost loved ones to illegal immigration.
BILLY AND KATHY INMAN, WOODSTOCK
Another victim of our broken system
I have a friend who came from India on an “F1” status in August 2002 to attend Texas A&M. She held an Iranian passport, but her father is Indian, and she had lived in India since age 3. She graduated with a master’s degree in environmental engineering in 2005. However Texas A&M did not submit her Optional Practical Training papers on time, so she was denied her OPT within two months after graduating. She was told to leave the country within seven days.
She filed a motion with immigration to reopen her case and sent supporting documents from the school dean and postmaster explaining it wasn’t her fault. Everything was done in a timely manner. That motion was filed October 2005, got denied in November and later was put in reconsideration. She was told she would have to go to Iran due to her passport — a country her Persian mother had fled. She continued to follow up with INS; however, she was only given a pending status, leaving her unable to continue her education in a graduate program or take one of the engineering jobs offered to her. She is just another face of our broken immigration system.
MELISSA O'SHIELDS, AVONDALE ESTATES
Beware unchecked carbon emissions
I was impressed by the data put out by the writer who said global warming is not caused by humans (“Climate change not human-caused,” Readers Write, Nov. 6). He also said there is no warming in spite of the world putting out record amounts of carbon emissions. I just hope the writer is around 30 years from now to see how things worked out.
PHIL DAVIS, POWDER SPRINGS
