Immigration security

Illegal immigration part of a 'money and power grab'

Many of us are outraged by lawbreaking, not by law enforcement. Sob stories go both ways.

Most of our “illegal” immigration comes from Latin America, mainly Mexico. The Mexican government has long interfered in our country's affairs and has pushed to get millions of Mexicans into our country in a blatant money and power grab.

In 2016, Mexico got more money from remittances its emigrants sent home, a record $26.9 billion, than it received from oil revenue. Mexicans aren't the only migrants doing this. Tennessee should place a fee on these remittances, as Oklahoma does.

Seventeen years ago, I viewed a tape recorded undercover by off-duty Latino officers of the former Immigration and Naturalization Service in Georgia. Several INS officers there had formed an immigration-control activist group that allied with a group I was in.