What are some ridiculous or dangerous laws that have been passed in america?

How do people feel about this letter to the editor?Why is it OK for government not to enforce immigration laws?

• Why is it OK for government not to enforce immigration laws? http://blog.mlive.com/readreact/2009/07/why_is_it_ok_for_government_no.html Posted by John Van Buren July 30, 2009 12:32PM Categories: Viewpoints If you are unemployed, a minority, upset over taxes, fearful of your safety and live in the city of Kalamazoo, good luck, since, Department of Public Safety Chief Jeff Hadley has acquiesced to an "advocacy" group, and will not enforce our government's immigration laws. This reprehensible act, where a public official, who is sworn to uphold the laws of our land, declares he is going to be selective in what laws he is going to enforce. Worse yet, this is an another example, where our gutless public officials pander to any group who requests or demands special rights, based on unfounded claims of victimization. Political correctness comes with a price and the taxpayer pays the bill. Having spent my winters in Arizona seven out of the last eight years (two near the border), I have witnessed the effects of illegal immigration. Nationwide, it is estimated, the yearly cost is $53 billion. In 2007, it cost the state of Nevada $639 million for un-reimbursed K-12 education, public health and the incarceration of criminal illegals. At the same time, these illegals sent back to their country of origin $618 million via Western Union, who generously provides a booklet for illegals, on how to respond, when stopped by law officers. Money talks! In Arizona, after they passed legislation requiring employers to verify citizenship, the illegal construction workers vanished and legal citizens took their place. The school district lost 167 students. This winter, while in Mobile, Ala., I read about a anti-immigration organization, called "Choose Black America." Seventy African-Americans were hired in Biloxi, Missi., after Hurricane Katrina hit the area. Three weeks later, these men were fired and told, "the Mexicans are here!" Currently, there is no legal basis for supporting "sanctuary" policies. The city of San Francisco's policy was struck down by the California Appeals Court. In the state of New York, their ill-conceived attempt to provide drivers' licenses to illegals was similarly rescinded. Are things going to improve with the current administration in Washington? I doubt it! Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi claims the enforcement of our immigration laws is "unAmerican," despite millions of Americans out of work and the unemployment rate still rising, the Democrat-controlled Congress, passed a $800 billion "stimulus bill and eliminated the everify provision which would insure available jobs would go to legal citizens! In other words, your tax dollars are going to provide employment for those who have knowingly violated our laws! John Van Buren resides in Kalamazoo.

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  Iagree, our government needs to enforce all laws, greasy and beverly need to look at the facts and stop using racist sites like splc, isn't that promoting your own group, does not contain non-relevant links to external sites or other questions and does not promote your own blog or website; EDIT: The SPLC frequently smears groups it disagrees with as “racist.” Although the SPLC’s list of hate groups includes groups that are based on racial hatred such as the Ku Klux Klan and the black separatist groups New Black Panther Party and Nation of Islam, which is headed by anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, it lists other groups whose claim to the dishonor is more dubious. The SPLC accuses the American Enterprise Institute, an influential conservative think tank, of links to racism, in part because it has employed a well-known conservative intellectual, writer Dinesh D’Souza, as its John M. Olin Fellow. AEI is part of “an array of right-wing foundations and think tanks [that] support efforts to make bigoted and discredited ideas respectable,” noted the summer 2003 issue of Intelligence Report, a center magazine. D’Souza is a scholar “whose views are seen by many as bigoted or even racist,” the article stated. But why attack D’Souza, a dark-skinned immigrant to the U.S. from India? Could it be because the acclaimed author has made powerful attacks on the kind of racial alarmism that is the SPLC’s bread and butter? The center has also gone after the Minuteman Project, which seeks to monitor illegal border crossings into the U.S. from Mexico. The Minuteman group has a broad base of support among conservatives and throughout the nation as a whole, but was labeled racist last year by the SPLC’s Intelligence Project. It may take some intellectual toughness to insist that the nation has the right to decide who may or may not cross its borders, but surely it’s not hate. But Morris Dees doesn’t see it that way. He sees all opposition to immigration as a symptom of hate. When, in 2004, a slate of anti-immigration candidates sought election to the Sierra Club, a prominent environmentalist group, Dees offered himself as an alternative candidate, urging his fellow club members to “vote against the greening of hate.” The club had long been on record as favoring a stable U.S. population in order to reduce alleged strains on the environment. According to Dees’s twisted reasoning, doesn’t this mean the club was already a bastion of hate? Corrosive Effect A disinterested observer might conclude that Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center are irrelevant activists left over from the 1960s, hangers-on to memories of past civil rights campaigns. They trudge on, enamored of their own propaganda.