Americanism, Immigration, and Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi joined Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez yesterday at a rally to declare Immigration raids “un-American.” I would like to implore somebody to run against Pelosi in the next election cycle in an effort to get her out of office. Personally, I feel that Pelosi is a lame-duck Speaker and does not represent the best interests of the American people. This latest comment by Pelosi is really unnerving. Un-American, really?
Perhaps the single most un-American activity is providing jobs, free healthcare, and social welfare benefits to people are not in the US legally. I agree that it may be a little excessive to burst into people’s homes in the middle of the night and conduct “raids,” but there is nothing wrong with deporting the people who come to this country illegally and take advantage of our welfare system; which, is paid for by tax-paying American citizens and legal immigrants. With all of the American citizens and legal immigrants struggling to find work amidst rising unemployment rates and a deepening economic recession, we are still losing jobs to illegal immigrants. We have a number of people we could put to work, but when employers can hire illegal immigrants for a fraction of the cost, it hurts our domestic workforce. In an attempt to stop this trend, Homeland Security has developed E-Verfiy. Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez has been an outspoken critic of E-Verify, the service used by employers to check the employment eligibility of their workers and applicants. As a person of mixed-race background and Hispanic ethnicity, I support legal emigration to the U.S. to give people a chance to better themselves. Pelosi’s comments prove that she does not adequately represent the best interests of her constituents. I am interested to hear what ludicrous comments Pelosi will make next.

Perhaps, Speaker Pelosi, it was more “American” to take a Congressional field-trip to Italy last month in the midst of a worsening American economic recession; when, god-forbid, you could have been at work writing legislation to ensure that people at the top levels of “bailed out” businesses such as AIG, would not receive multi-million dollar bonuses on the tax-payers’ dime.