Here's a letter to the editor published by State Representative Rod Driver :


Fox right to block bill

Some legislators want Rhode Island to adopt Arizona’s notorious law against “illegal aliens.” The proposed law would virtually require anyone who looks like a foreigner to carry documents proving that he or she has the right to be here.

Some Rhode Islanders are attacking House Speaker Gordon Fox for his unwillingness to waive the rules and push through a bill of such dubious constitutionality.

Much more serious problems of illegal immigration don’t seem to be of concern. Millions of illegal immigrants are in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Palestine, Yemen and elsewhere. Some are Americans or other foreigners funded by U.S. taxpayers to kill people or take their resources.

Today the killing is mostly done using drones controlled from air-conditioned comfort and safety at Creech Air Force Base, in Nevada, or CIA headquarters, in Virginia. An operator watches his prey on a computer screen. Then he pushes a firing button and experiences no more pangs of conscience than a teenager killing the enemy in a video game.

Rod Driver Richmond

The writer is a state representative.


     I wonder if Mr. Driver actually read the law, or like many in the Obama administration, just automatically criticized it without a proper review.  As for requiring anyone who looks like a foreigner to carry documentation, that's nonsense.  It's nothing but an excuse used in order to perpetuate illegal imigration in the United States.  This law really doesn't add anything ground-breaking to the immigration debate.  It's merely a state version of a federal law.  The big difference is that Arizona plans on actually enforcing its law.  Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for those at the federal level.

     His rambling letter finally ends by criticizing the presence of foreign troops in countries with terrorists committed to killing Americans.  Although, I must say that I partially agree with Rod Driver on one thing.  I'd like to see soldiers in Iraq brought home immediately.  Of course, I'd like to see many of them placed on the U.S./Mexico.  My guess is that Mr. Driver wouldn't agree.