One of the delights of blogging about the Minnesota's First Congressional District is the frequent opportunity to run into the witty former state representative Ruth Johnson. We shared a few laughs about musical Congressmen at the City Mouse-John Hall party at Mankato's Pub 500 Friday night
Johnson gets serious in a letter in Monday's Mankato Free Press, Walz respects both immigrants’ work and the law.
She writes in part:
Congressman Tim Walz has a basic plan on which to build consensus and make progress. His plan, similar to the one passed in Congress, is a good place to start, but even that plan is being blocked by opponents who offer only expensive fences, which are bound to fail.I urge Walz to press ahead with his plan: Make our borders more secure by increasing the number of border patrol professionals, require those here illegally to return home, pay a fine and get in line for legal immigration, and help employers deal with workplace reality by providing better IDs.
Immigrant employees help to get the country’s work done, and Walz knows that we need to provide a better system for legal immigration to ensure our businesses have the labor resources they need.
Walz has a plan that respects immigrants’ work and respects the law.
We have to laugh when we read of Walz being called an open borders kind of guy. Voters in the First will probably be hearing more of the same talk--as they did in 2006--and we'll see if it sticks any better in 2008 than it did then.
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