Border Solution Task Force

     During the week of April 20th, individuals from all over the United States, representing organizations seeking to reform our immigration policy are coming to Washington, DC to meet with their legislators.  They will be carrying with them the grassroots message that many of our communities are seriously in trouble from the badly planned and haphazard immigration policy visited upon them by Congress and the federal government. 

     For years it has been widely acknowledged by even the most jaundiced skeptics that communities along our southern border, are suffering from adverse impacts of uncontrolled illegal immigration.  Now, communities far to the interior of our nation are experiencing much of what we have long felt here at the border. 

     Not only is it illegal immigration causing problems around the country, but poorly planned and ill thought out legal immigration policies are causing problems just as severe.  The message the people coming to Washington are bringing with them is that our immigration policy needs fixing and total reform from the ground up.  Our current immigration policy is just not working. 

     We hope that our national legislators—the only ones who can do anything about immigration policy—are willing to listen to people from the communities they represent who are taking the time and trouble to tell them of their concerns arising from the lack of a sane immigration policy. 

     The enemies of immigration reform invariably attempt to blunt any rational debate or discussion of immigration policy by raising the specter of hate and racism.  But those of us who are coming to Washington are genuinely concerned about the effects of overpopulation on our beautiful and great nation.  We are observing an explosion of population in this country that is arising from uncontrolled immigration.  It is a population explosion that is already threatening our open spaces, woodlands, wetlands, water supplies and even our crop lands and with them our ability to even feed ourselves. 

     We who are going to Washington hope that it will be the beginning of a national dialog that is long overdue.  Let's open the subject of immigration up to rational debate and discussion.  Allowing those who would cut off all debate and discussion of the subject to rule the day is irrational, un-democratic and un-American. 

     See you in Washington.