Issue Position: Securing Our Borders

Issue Position

Issue Position: Securing Our Borders

Our nation's immigration policy is flawed. We are a nation of immigrants, but reform is in the best interests of our nation's future.

We must seal our borders, and immediately deport illegal aliens who continue to commit crimes.

Rewarding criminal activity only serves to undermine the very principles upon which our civil society was formed. As an attorney, former prosecutor and Military Magistrate, I am shocked by anyone who would accept anything less than the enforcement of the rule of law. It is simply unfair to suggest that those who immigrate to our country legally, follow the path toward obtaining citizenship, pay taxes and obey our laws, should somehow be told that illegal aliens get to skip the line ahead of them.

Unlike my opponent, I am against amnesty and hiring halls for illegal aliens.

We should celebrate the hardworking businessmen and women of our community who obey the law. We must penalize employers who hire illegal aliens and fail to pay the required taxes and worker's compensation.

In these uncertain times, keeping track of those who come into our country is paramount to homeland security. Too often, terrorists with intent to harm us have used government-issued identification, like driver's licenses, to carry out their attacks. We cannot afford to make these mistakes again, and by providing criminals with driver's licenses, we would allow ourselves to be vulnerable to attacks. Unlike my opponent, within hours of Governor Eliot Spitzer's proposal to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens, I was on record voicing my strong opposition.

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