Regarding the Public Forum letter, “E-verify would solve many of America’s immigration problems.”
It is clear that there is an immigration issue going on at our southern borders. With migrants looking for a better future. However, what this letter states is what continues to be the bigger issue: access to citizenship.
It does not take much research to see how difficult and expensive it is for migrants to go through the immigration process. Almost all migrants trying to come in from our southern border are doing so to work. As a small business owner, I know how difficult it is to find employees right now. This is the first time in my generation that I have seen a surplus of jobs.
The unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in years, yet there is still a lack of willing “legal” citizens to take open positions. The “e-verify” process is another hurdle intentionally put in the system to discourage employers from hiring the help they so desperately need. These migrants are not coming to America and taking American jobs. They are working the jobs that no American wants to work.
I am most certainly not a writer, or an editor, and I understand that your purpose is to inform. I would ask that you put more articles in your paper that focus on how the legal process to citizenship needs to be streamlined, or at least, fixed.
“E-verify” kind of letters really put a stain on who we are in this great country. We are blessed to live here, and I know I would like nothing more than to give others the opportunity to live here.
Dylan Dusoe, West Jordan
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