Enforcing the law is hardly racist

I am tired of picking up the paper or hearing news reports on TV that brand law-abiding U.S. citizens as racists because we are protesting illegal immigration and demanding that our local, state and federal governments enforce our laws.

So putting race aside, let us call illegal immigrants what they really are: economic terrorists. They come here and depress wages for all law-abiding citizens, especially legal immigrants and the lower class. They crowd our schools and emergency rooms, further taxing law-abiding citizens by virtue of the annual increases in property taxes and other taxes we are required to pay to provide these services. They show up en masse at food pantries and public aid offices for subsidies that again take away from the legal residents of this country and those who have been the most severely depressed from the presence of these law breakers.

The businesses that hire them are economic terrorists as they take advantage of the low wages and ability to shirk the paying of taxes and other benefits, which are then subsidized by us taxpayers in the form of services and subsidies that our taxes provide.

The landlords make millions of dollars per year because they can charge increased rents due to the multiple families sharing one apartment or house, and again, the taxpayers are forced to subsidize heating, electricity and other services.

So why are we branded as racists when all we are asking for is a level playing field and that our laws be equally enforced? Why do we get sneered at and protested against and threatened with boycotts when we demand that our representatives take a stance and say no to amnesty, no to continued importation of poverty and no to ever-increasing tax burdens that are not born equally by all?

Taxpayers, wake up and smell the coffee; the future of your country and your children's futures are at stake here, and we need to rise as an economic force in our own right and demand better treatment and equal enforcement of our laws.

Cindy Bandur

Island Lake