Response to immigration article

Your article--Ducey’s Position on Border I am responding to your assertion that Congress has done its job. Nothing could be further from the truth. Congress for the last 30+ years has allowed this cancer on our border to fester. When President Reagan granted citizenship to six million illegal immigrants, he added e-verify to assure it would not re-occur believing that by putting penalties on employers of substantial fines and imprisonment, that illegal immigration would cease. Congress never followed thru and so it began again. It has been reported that illegals total over 12 million. I believe it is much higher than that. The oft repeated statement “that Republicans like cheap labor and Democrats like new voters” is used to explain. Arizonans like me voted for our own version a few years ago. To my knowledge no employer was ever indicted nor held accountable. I believe because our “leaders” did not approve and did not fund sufficiently to make it effective. Millions overstay their Visa without consequences. They cross our Southern border by the thousands daily and allowed to enter for processing. Many overburden our medical system with diseases or other illnesses requiring aid. How many Billions does this cost annually? They are put on buses and dropped off here and there fending for themselves aided by compassionate Americans as they can. President Trump’s wall will not stop them as they cross anywhere they want. The border patrol is useless since their full time job now is to care for them instead of sending them back. Congress should pass legislation to not allow entrance without authorization to anyone by immediately returning them to the other side of our border. They should find and expel people overstaying their visas, Let me add I have always thought that DACA was a farce. If we know about these who were brought over as children don’t we also know where their parents live who entered illegally? All of our meat processing factories could be shut down today if they were raided and illegals sent packing and the bosses put in prison. I could go on but won’t. The hatred of Trump seems to be enough to not support anything he might propose, so the insanity will continue with daily castigation's from “good” people whose letters the Star loves to publish. The ongoing tragedy will continue until we collapse as a functioning nation. Jack B. Walters April 5, 2019