text: I already sent letters, I hope others do the same. We need strong controls on the borders in order to keep the demographics from going nutz. There's no way in HELL our economy's going to create jobs at the rate of expansion the Senate's advocating, so our representatives need to step and in one voice call 'BULLSHI%' on the whole mess, and spin up the Border Patrol to the level of effectiveness required to get the flippin' job done. Mexico needs reforms, and the only way they'll happen at this point is if they have a really POWERFUL, boot-like incentive for doing so. \n\nConflicts of interest in public office are part of the very history and fabric of the american political story. Another part of that fabric(the big patch that looks like it got put over a bunch of little holes and stuff) is where the voters have taken these guys to task by calling them out on their ethics.and dismissing/recalling those that have a demonstrated conflict of interest that is preventing them from doing their jobs effectively. \n\nIllegal immigration's a toughie, not a simple issue, and not solved by a signature on a piece of paper. You also have to get to the root cause of illegal immigration, which is partly our own businesses growing too enamored with high incomes, and partly abject poverty overseas in countries that've been on the american aid teat for too many decades without really standing up and tending to their own problems. There's no army in the world that can fight the consequences of that, so policy reforms are really important. If our own representatives can't see the light on that one, someone needs to give em new batteries for the flashlight, and the calculator, too. Failing that, a new job at Wendy's or something, where their first new task will be to learn SPANISH. Like the customers have to...