The Congress has now agreed to the amnesty bill supported by President Bush which would supposedly require illegal aliens to pay a $5,000 fee in order to stay here and gain legal residency. The fact that American citizenship has been valued at roughly the same cost as a 1996 Volkswagen is insulting, the fact that our own Congress and President have arrived at that estimation speaks to how little respect our elected representatives have for this nation.

Bush helped throw the mid-term elections to the Democrats in order to rid the House of enough conservative Republicans to finally pass his amnesty plan. The conservative House had been the only thing standing in the way of Bush and his fellow liberals aiming to sell-out this country. Now the House is controlled by liberals, just as the Senate has been for years...Bush has been no doubt bragging to unscrupulous U.S. business leaders looking for cheap labor as well as to his Mexican friends who control the flow of illegal drugs into this country.

We have all been sold-out and now we must watch as our precious citizenship can now be had for a $5,000 fee from anyone who invades our once sovereign soil. Senator John McCain who will never let us forget that he is a veteran, is now telling us that the sacrifices made by all of the men who have fought and died for this nation meant nothing...Well, as I explained earlier, it is equal to the blue book value of a ‘96 Jetta!

If you sneak into our country, you will enjoy the same rights and privileges as those who wait for years to come here legally. I suppose, anyone who has trespassed on a rancher’s property, cutting their fences and endangering their livestock will now be regarded the same as the brave souls who settled at Jamestown 400 years ago.

My great-grandfather fought in World War I and sustained a grievous injury at the cruel hands of the Germans, an injury which caused him to suffer for the rest of his long life. As I stare at his discharge papers and Victory Medal now proudly displayed above my desk, I wonder what he would think of this day. I wonder if he would now view the sacrifices he and so many of his comrades made for this nation to be pointless.

I grieve for my great-grandfather and all of the courageous men who took up arms in defense of this great country. On this dark day, I grieve not only for the ones who are now gone but most of all for the veterans who are still here. The brave men who fought in bloody battles defending the American way of life, now must watch as half-men such as President Bush and Senator Ted Kennedy render their service irrelevant.

I would have never believed that a day would come when our Republic would be controlled by traitors. However, that day is now upon us.