Illegal Immigration: Letter to Feinstein by Chelle Stockman

Dear Senator Feinstein:

 

Regarding the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006" that will allow 325,000 temporary visas available to "unskilled" workers in the first year alone; many whom I spoke with share your concerns.  We got to talking about this and the intricate problems in our foreseeable future and decided to write to you about one of the issues we find important.

 

The majority of our graduating students won't go on to get degrees in our school district here in Vallejo, California.  Few graduate knowing how to manage a home budget let alone how to write a check.  More graduate without knowing how to shop for and plan healthy menus to insure they live a longer more robust life.  Due to budget cuts to shop classes, home economics classes and several other related electives, our graduates won't have the skills to survive; they'll graduate as an unskilled labor force.

 

This Reform Act you are so concerned about allows for another 325,000 unskilled laborers who will be competing with our children.  We are on a downward spiral because we don't take care of those whom we have here.  We ask our children to regurgitate facts for an exit exam but fail to teach them basic tools to earn a living.  Most will not become doctors and lawyers.  Our labor unions are suffering a loss of workers in the fields of electricians, plumbers, pipe fitters and insulators.  Shouldn't we be seeing to it that our high schools help to supply that demand?

 

Just whom did we sell our liberty to?  Who is the leaseholder of our children's future?

 

I'm writing on behalf of many from my community. 

Thank you for alerting us to this, another dilemma.

 

Sincerely,

 

Chelle Stockman