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Enforce law

Our administration and lawmakers hope we citizens continue to focus on border control of illegal aliens so they will not have to face the legal solution that the influential Political Action Committees fear: Enforcement of the existing written law, which they've sworn to enforce; a law that would deny PAC-represented employers cheap illegal labor.

Thanks to the computer age, we citizens can simply "click" www.immigration-usa.com/ina_96_title_2.html , scroll down to "SEC. 274A UNLAWFUL EMPLOYMENT OF ALIENS" and read the law that makes it a crime for employers (even PAC-represented employers) to hire illegal aliens. The citizens' solution is to begin to influence our leaders via the voting booth more than they're influenced by the powerful PAC contributors.

Any voluntary "Minutemen" use might be more effectively deployed at the doors of employers and the halls of Congress.

Armond "Si" Simmons

Pell City 35128

 

 

LOOK BACK

From Birmingham Post-Herald files:
  • 50 years ago, April 20, 1955: Testimony will start this morning in murder trial of Arch B. Ferrell after state and defense find missing witnesses.

    Representatives of 12 states, including six governors, propose plans to settle telephone and railroad strikes in South.

  • 25 years ago, April 20, 1980: Iranian militants say they will not allow family members to visit 50 American hostages unless Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini asks them to.

    Costa Rica tells Cuba it is willing to grant permanent asylam to all 10,000 Cubans still trying to leave island nation.

  • 39 years ago, April 20, 1966: Mobile native and Atlanta Brave Hank Aaron hits 400th home run of his major league career.


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