Illegal Immigration Letter- Paul Streitz

To the editor:

Who says illegal aliens are poor? So poor that they need money for heat during the winter?

It is estimated that $23 billion was sent back to Mexico in 2006. If there are 12 million illegals, that amounts to $159.72 per month remitted for every illegal man, woman and child in the United States of America. And that does not count money sent back to the other South American and Asian countries and India.

If illegal aliens are sending back 5 percent of their earnings to Mexico, the Mexicans are taking billions out of the pockets of working-class Americans.

If illegal aliens are so poor in America, why do houses harboring illegals have so many trucks with license plates from Massachusetts and Pennsylvania?

If illegals are so poor, why does New Haven Mayor John DeStefano want to set up a bank for illegals?

If illegals are so poor, why are all the restaurant jobs and construction jobs seemingly done by illegals?

If illegals are so poor, why are so many doing jobs at Yale University, such as grounds-keeping and cleaning, that Americans used to do?

If illegals are so poor, why does Bank of America give them credit cards? Why have they been able to take out home mortgages?

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro says, "We cannot deport 12 million people." Why should Americans deport anybody? Dry up the jobs. With the money that illegal aliens have made, they can all go back to their home countries drinking champagne on a first-class airline ticket.

Paul Streitz

Darien

The writer is co-director of CT Citizens for Immigration Control, an Internet organization of residents throughout the state.