Immigration law aims to preserve liberty

With all the ballyhoo about the new law in Arizona the ever-familiar ring of prejudice has struck again in our country.

I have heard there are more immigrants leaving this country than entering it. The reason is because the quality of a bright future of high paying jobs has failed in the misery of slave labor and conditions that are worse than the homes they left.

So why the concern about these immigrants that come in legal or not?

Most of you who read this paper have no idea what a Cold War within your own country is and why signs of it are imminent. We just remembered the Oklahoma City bombing April 19 marking 15 years. Six years after that, we had the Twin Towers. We just uncovered a plot to kill a police officer, then massacre the families gathered at his funeral.

We have underground militia calling it their "right to bear arms." That's a Cold War. Part of fighting a Cold War is to know who your enemies are. That's becoming increasingly more difficult to do with so many foreigners.

Now how are they expected to protect us if they can't ask us who we are, where we come from, what our purpose is for being here, and kindly prove it.

Some people call this infringement on their freedoms. I call it pursuit of continuing our liberty.

As Thomas Jefferson said, "The price of liberty is never ending vigilance." While not having reviewed the bill passed in Arizona I am in favor of vigilance in preserving the liberty of the people of the United States.

I believe that if this can be proven to be the purpose of any bill before any body of government within this country and it applies to all then I favor such passage.

Thomas Vana

Des Plaines