Everyone should also.
Here’s what I sent (I always try to be original):
Honorable Senator Kyl,
We dodged a bullet with the immigration bill. It’s dead, and good riddance to bad garbage. When you lock yourself in a room “until you get it done”, apparently by the time you are through anything looks like the declaration of independence.
This bill was horrible, and I say that as a supporter of some amnesty. Even strong amnesty people should hate this bill, giving illegals a place in line in front of legals, giving illegals a chance to bring family in while legal immigrants languish, giving illegals a free pass for working illegally for years while legals waited at the border not allowed in because there were too many illegals.
Imagine a sold-out concert. Tickets are being scalped for thousands (Mexicans pay thousands to smugglers). But when the doors open, a bunch of people without tickets sneak in and take all the seats.
What do you do? Well, you throw them all out. But they all bought food and beer, they are sitting nicely, they have great respect for the band — too bad, throw them out.
Your bill instead said let them stay. They pay what a scalper would charge for a ticket, and they get to stay, while people who bought tickets legally are stuck outside because someone else took their seat.
That’s the law of the jungle, not a country under the rule of law.
I got a plan for your — if an illegal wants to stay, they get a signature from someone WAITING IN LINE that says the person waiting will give up their slot for the guy that snuck in and took his place. Now THAT would be fair. How many people who waited legally do you think are willing to give up their places for people who broke the law?
Look, the bill is dead. Thank God for your fortune, Reid killed it, not you, so you can move on and maybe have hearings to make sure the President enforces the many laws we already have on the books, and then we can pass a SENSIBLE plan, not one that can get the agreement of Ted Kennedy.