dear Congress - get your damn act together

and solve a problem instead of creating on for once: pass immigration legislation that INCLUDES amnesty for those already in the US - just give them a damn green card for christ's sake! You have the opportunity to resolve a problem that YOUR previous inadequate immigration policies created by giving hard working people the right to continue to work hard - or does that too much to ask?

I know you've heard the whole "America was built by immigrants" argument and your probably ready with some stale response that includes "the reality of the situation is..." and "I am not against hard working legal immigrants, however...". Well, you have 2 options: kick out millions of people and spend billions doing it, create huge practically unfillable holes in the workforce and raise prices on many consumer goods, and tear the American dream from the very hands of those who want it most, or you could provide amnesty, resolve much of the current problem, allow hard working immigrants to continue working and create a good, sustainable immigration policy that will assure that the same mistakes that led to the current situation will not be made again. Of course, when you imagine that A - many republicans are anti-immigrants and B - many immigrants are not republicans, you can see the real discussion about this issue is not occurring at the level of right or wrong, but rather right or left.

This type of thinking is the unfortunate destiny of democracy, and all we have left to do is scream so loud as a people that they can't help but get it through their ballot-box brains that what they do AFFECTS US. I'm glad that 500,000 people were screaming in LA, and I hope we continue to until the problem is resolved logically and in the people's benefit.

You can write a letter to your congressperson about this - go to congress.org and the For Citizens bar. It's a little scream, but it counts.