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Dear Mr. Thompson of the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives:

I volunteered, voted, and protested for Governor Bush in 2000.

Why are foreign nationals who legally applied for a US Visa abroad, who wait their turn after it is approved (and who wait for years in many instances) discriminated against by CIR? Those who broke the law, did not wait, jumped the line, and acted criminally are BETTER OFF under CIR than those who followed the rules.

This is "reform"?

Under CIR American Citizenship is purchased for $5000 by those who broke the rules and stand in better stead than those who followed them.

And the White House's and some Republicans' statements/insinuations that we who oppose "CIR" are racists, nativists, or are in the minority on this issue are very much wrong and very much resented. I am the son of legal immigrants and I date and will marry a Latina.

I am frankly stunned that, for the money of big business, or the sake of "compassion," your Administration pushes this so-called reform.

On the off chance you actually read this, please respond up your chain of command and let them know: WE DON'T BELIEVE THE SPIN about better border security used to resurrect CIR.

Build the fence, grant visas to those with a proper (NOT 24 HOUR) background check, keep out the FELONS, deport the illegal alien FELONS, etc. Enforce the existing law and toughen employer sanctions. Enforce the first law (1986) before you ask us to believe you are serious about any new one.

Please listen to Laura Ingraham's demolition of Tony Snow's contentions earlier today. She is not a nativist, a racist, or a loon (either).

Blogging here won't help the White House's credibility on "CIR." What you read here should alert the Administration that we are hoppin' mad.

You know, I think you hit a very important point here Baja.

Nick, it's disingenuous at best and deceptive at worst to say that the people who oppose this bill are not wanting to do what's good for America.

In no WAY, SHAPE or FORM is this bill good for America. Not one iota!!!

I think that the problem that we've got here is: A failure to communicate!

My and my fellow Freepers and conservatives focus is on how this ABOMINATION affects America.

The WH and Congress seem to be focussed on how this ABOMINATION affects illegals and I dunno, our relations with Mexico?

The WH and Congress couldn't give a rip about America it appears to me.

But we're the ones who don't care about America.

It's a lie at its blackest. Something straight out of the Bill Clinton Playbook.