I disagree with the statement made in the Mailbag section Nov. 19 (“Let’s hope Cook challenges Rohrabacher again”) stating that our representative to the House of Representative is an “empty suit.” Quite the contrary, I think Rohrabacher is the best of the 535 members of Congress.
For one thing he is highly supportive of the aerospace industry that is such a large part of his constituency but even more impressive, he is the biggest champion of the greatest threat to this country, even a greater threat than Islamo Fascism — illegal immigration.
Of all the states, California suffers the most from illegal immigration. Twenty-nine percent of all prison inmates in the nation are illegal immigrants. Each prisoner costs the state $43,287 per year or three quarters of a billion dollars annually (source: Jim Silva mailer). There is also the cost of lost income and social security taxes by working under the table, billions of dollars of untaxed wages being sent back to Mexico instead of being spent here in California where we can collect local and state sales tax, and treating illegal immigrants that show up in the emergency room of hospitals for which these hospitals are not reimbursed forcing many of them to close.
