Ore. senators put immigrants above Americans

Letter date: 
Friday, February 20, 2015
Letter publisher: 
East Oregonian
Letter author: 
Lyneil Vandermolen
Letter body: 


Both Oregon senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, are eager to force Americans to pay the costs of the president’s illegal amnesty. This despite the fact federal judge Andrew Hanen just agreed that Obama’s amnesty fiat is illegal.

Congress can most easily block the amnesty by refusing to pay for the bureaucratic processing of millions of new applicants. But both Wyden and Merkley have repeatedly voted against bringing up HR 240, the amnesty defunding bill that recently passed the House. Both of them want the initial five million new applicants to be able to legally compete against entry-level citizens while Obama adds another 30 million work permits in increments.

At that point, we won’t have a recognizable country anymore. Americans will have lost our voice in favor of a chaotic avalanche of low-skilled Third World poor. How will that improve the lives of the Americans Wyden and Merkley pretend to represent?