Representative Gordon,
Thank you for the beginnings of responsible representation for the
citizens of Tennessee.
Please become vocal about our country's crisis and plight. Please
vocalize support to Secure Our Borders worry about everything else later!
Perhaps, you will come to realize if you do not step up loudly now you
will soon have no state or country to be elected to represent!
SECURE OUR BORDERS and worry about everything else later!
David A. Bess
1506 River Rock Blvd.
Murfreesboro, TN. 37128-5335
dab1231@mail.com
www.legalamerica.blogspot.com
www.tennesseeworkers.blogspot.com
----- Original Message -----
From: bart.gordon@mail.house.gov
To: dab1231@mail.com
Subject: Re: WriteRep Responses
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:33:56 -0400
April 24, 2006
Mr. David Bess
1506 River Rock Blvd
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37128
Dear David,
Thank you for contacting me about the state of our nation's borders security. I
appreciate hearing from you.
I agree with you about the importance of securing our nation's borders. The
uncontrolled flow of people across our border poses a serious threat to national
security, jobs, and welfare. For that reason, I have been a long time advocate for
more border security. In the 108th Congress, I voted to allow the U.S. military
to patrol our borders if needed. Last year, I voted for the REAL ID Act which allows for
the completion of a security fence along the San Diego border with Mexico.
Last December, I voted for the tough immigration bill that passed the U.S. House
of Representatives. The bill requires the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to
develop a national strategy for border security and to work with the Department of
Defense to increase the availability and use of military equipment in border
surveillance. The legislation also requires installation of security fencing along
key points of the Mexican border.
I am also co-sponsoring several bills to address this problem. For example, I am
cosponsoring H.R. 4313, the TRUE Enforcement and Border Security Act, which will provide
for the construction of a security fence along the U.S./Mexico border. I am also
cosponsoring H.R. 780 which provides for assured funding for more border patrol
agents, H.R. 3704 which establishes a Border Patrol Auxiliary to help the U.S. Border
Patrol monitor the U.S. / Mexican border, and H.R. 4816, which criminalizes the
construction or financing of a border tunnel.
I have supported these and other measures to secure our nation's borders and
to control the rising number of people that enter our country illegally each year
at a high cost to American citizens. As legislation is introduced in Congress that
affects immigration, rest assured that I will carefully review it to ensure that it
is right for our country and right for Middle Tennessee.
Thank you again for contacting me. If I may be of assistance to you or your
family, feel free to call on me.
Stay in touch,
BART GORDON
Member of Congress