Stephan

 Thank you that is the very picture  I was tryngto post for some reason it just won't take.

 Please read below This is how many thing are chaning because of the mass coming in  our country the wrong way.

ORANGE COUNTY ( CALIFORNIA ) NEWSPAPER This is a very good 
 letter to the editor. This woman made some good points. For some reason, 
 people have difficulty structuring their arguments when arguing against 
 supporting the currently proposed immigration revisions. This lady made 
 the argument pretty simple. NOT printed in the Orange County Paper..
  Newspapers simply won't publish letters to the editor which they 
 either deem politically incorrect (read below) or which does not agree 
 with the philosophy they're pushing on the public. This woman wrote a 
 great letter to the editor that should have been published; but, with 
 your help it will get published via cyberspace!
 
 New Immigrants 
 
 
 
 From: "David LaBonte" 
 My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the editor of the 
 OC Register which, of course, was not printed. So, I decided to "print" 
 it myself by sending it out on the Internet. Pass it along if you feel  
 so inclined.
 
 Dave LaBonte (signed)
 
 Written in response to a series of letters to the editor in the 
 Orange County Register:
 
 
 Dear Editor:
 
 So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this 
 land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should 
 tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question 
 aren't being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island 
 and other ports of entry.
 
 
 
 Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to 
 people like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not willing to accept
 this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a
 rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States , people had
 to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented. 
 
 Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. 
 They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in 
 good and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their 
 new American households and some even changed their names to blend in 
 with their new home.
 
 
 They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their 
 children a new life and did everything in their power to help their 
 children assimilate into one culture.
 
 Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no 
 labor laws to protect them. All they had were the skills and 
 craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a future of 
 prosperity. Most of their children came of age when World War II broke
 out. My father fought along side men whose parents had come straight 
 over from Germany , Italy , France and Japan . None of these 1st 
 generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their 
 parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini 
 and the Emperor of Japan. They were defending the United States of 
 America as one people. 
 
 
 When we liberated France , no one in those villages were looking 
 for the French-American or the German American or the Irish American. 
 The people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that 
 represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have 
 thought about picking up another country's flag and waving it to 
 represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents 
 who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what 
 it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red , 
 white and blue bowl.
 
 
 And here we are in 2007 with a new kind of immigrant who wants 
 the same rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing 
 with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card 
 and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country. I'm sorry, 
 that's not what being an American is all about. I believe that the 
 immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900's deserve better 
 than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future 
 generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally 
 searching for a better life . I think they would be appalled that they 
 are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.
 
 And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty, 
 it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the 
 immigration bill. I wouldn't start talking about dismantling the United 
 States just yet.
 (signed) Rosemary LaBonte

I agree 100 %

(signed ) Jannette Blair

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