Immigrants want free ride

I want to comment on the letter by Betty Orr (April 30).

First of all I do want to forget the D word. You asked if we remembered when the debt was incurred; I guess you were referring to President Bush, so how about a little bit of history for you:

When Bush left office in 2008 our national debt was about 8 trillion, and your President Obama said that was unpatriotic; now only a little over four years later the debt is $17 trillion, he has increased the national debt more than all of our presidents combined. And on illegal immigrants, I for one am a little tired of the woe is me on all of them, I had to get my driver’s license renewed last year and had to take in my birth certificate and Social Security card and proof of where I lived; now the state is going to give all of them a license with no proof of anything.

They seem to get whatever they want; that is why they come to this country, to get free stuff, like food stamps and welfare, so again I am tired of people saying poor immigrants.

Joyce Reppenhagen

Lebanon