Dear Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson

Dear Senator Hutchinson:
First of all, thank you for your years of dedicated service to the United States, and to Texas, my father's homestate.

Here in Oregon, we don't face the same border issues as Texas, unless one regards the border with California as being dangerous. But we do have a state government which is virtually oblivious to illegal aliens and the damage caused by them: the taxpayer burden of providing services such as no-cost medical, subsidized food, housing, transportation, education, bi-lingual state employees and documents: the list is virtually endless. ESL is a six-year course in Oregon schools. Six Years. "Rosetta Stone" offers competent language learning in six MONTHS.

I am the child of "immigrants," French, Irish, Mexican, English, Scandanavian, and Canadian Indian. ALL LEGAL. This "open borders" nonsense is pure hypocricy from every leftist who has a lock on the front door of his/her own home or a fence around his/her own private property.

Gert Boyle, 80-year-old CEO of Columbia Sportswear, can attest to the absurdity of porous borders, since she was brutally assaulted, kidnapped and robbed by a long-term illegal alien who broke into her home last week.

As wise old Dr. J. Vernon Mcgee, a fellow Texan, often said: "Come to my front door, and I'll welcome you with open arms, but creep through my open window, and you'll meet my shotgun."

My very best to you,
NeonLeon