Do you believe that an alien who doesn’t speak more than 10 English words can read and interpret the U.S. Constitution for an examiner? I don’t either, but it happened to us, thank goodness. 

On our third trip to the INS Office (not saying where) we rang the bell; the same examiner who had served us two times finally understood the purpose of the Constitution bit — it was to give the examiner time to look into the alien’s background to determine if he is bona fide and not an enemy of the U.S. Mine was true as gold.

What does this happening have to do with our current immigration crisis? Well, almost everyone is watching the left hand without using the right. Most of the current aliens by contacts with the media state that they want to work. So why don’t we help them while helping ourselves; there is a program designed for those who

This program has been working for years and begins with employer farmers, ranchers, timber crews, contacting INS, informing them of their needs. Then the INS recommends and guys like me do the paperwork, I-765, to assist them in obtaining an EAD, employment authorization document, to work for said employer. He has to furnish quarters and some meals to all his aliens. 

Sounds easy and can be if our INS contacts employers to determine their cooperation.

So, how may we help clear up this current mess at the border, save a few lives and clothes, and make employers happy. Well, I tried a congressman, but my epistle might not have reached his desk; it’s still on his aide’s sideboard, who is in the Caribbean on a siesta. I believe that some want to help with this elementary program but don’t have the clout or the energy to tackle our alphabet agencies. 

By the by, this program is not new; they were using it when I was in college, for farmers whom I knew. It’s weird — employers who have a need, workers who actually want to punch a card, and law enforcement folks who want the peace, but the holdup is the form I-765. 

It’s difficult to conceive, with all the money being wasted, the lives lost, the suffering of the aliens in the caravan that these bureaucracies cannot see at least one solution outside the box.

Do we know more about the INS operations now? We know that regulations have no effect when not read or heeded. Are the persons dealing with this large problem immune to help? Likely, many are terminal. And if the marchers could concentrate on something positive, many aliens could be assured of better lives.

K.G.Watson

Maggie Valley