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Re: “Tancredo renews border-troops call; Family of slain ranger backs effort,” Oct. 9 news story.
All the co-signers of this letter lost a brother, a sister, a son, a daughter, a wife, a husband, a mother or a father in the terrorist attack of Sept. 11. We have felt compelled to objectively study why these attacks could be so effectively carried out.
We speak out in support of Rep. Tom Tancredo’s efforts to have immigration law enforced at all times. We are convinced that enforcing America’s long-standing laws on immigration is essential if another Sept. 11-scale attack is to be avoided. For 25 years, the government has not been seriously attempting to stop illegal immigration. The result is that today there is a vast ocean of illegal immigrants, 8 million to 11 million in number. It is this ocean that allowed the hijackers to plan, rehearse, finance and carry out their mass murders over a long period of time, almost completely free of fear that they would be discovered. Those millions provided the cover, the world in which the terrorists could immerse themselves and disappear.
Posted by Suzanne at October 21, 2002