Let ICE do its job

Letter date: 
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Letter publisher: 
OregonLive.com
Letter author: 
Elizabeth Van Staaveren
Letter body: 

There is no acceptable reason why Oregon should not fully cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We are suffering the consequences of Oregon's misguided 1987 law which restricts cooperation. It should be repealed, and Initiative Petition 22 can do that.

The Center for Immigration Studies has issued a five-page fact sheet on immigration enforcement and community policing which shows there is no evidence of a "chilling effect" from local police cooperation with ICE. New DOJ testimony confirms that claim is spurious. Legislators should put the safety and well-being of citizens FIRST, not dream up protections for illegal aliens such as HB 3464, "Privacy" for illegal aliens. Every Democrat in the Oregon Legislature but one, (Sen. Betsy Johnson), voted to put the "privacy" of illegal aliens above the interests of citizens. Illegal, unlimited, unrestricted immigration will quickly destroy a nation. ICE is responsible for interior enforcement of our immigration laws. We owe ICE agents full cooperation and encouragement to do the job. They should be thanked for their difficult, dangerous work on the public's behalf.

President Trump is trying to rectify out-of-control immigration resulting from the policies of previous administrations. Help him and ICE; don't put road blocks in the way.