Editor, Times-Union: If the 28 million Americans were alive today, who were killed by abortion before 1997, they would now be citizens between the ages of 18 and 41. They would all be workforce age. Consequently, there would be far, far fewer jobs available for central Americans to have come here for employment. This would mean the U.S. would not have 11.5 million illegal immigrants here now. So, the bottom line is that America as a whole has become amoral by following its corrupt judges by rejecting so many millions of our own people through abortion. America speaks loudly and the message is clear: "We have no desire to require a woman to be burdened with a baby, inconvenienced with raising a child. Just kill it. The government approves of it." But what does America receive as a consequence? Over 11 million people who have entered the United States illegally, that pay no income taxes, send their income back to their former place of domicile, burden the schools and welfare system, and require hospitals to dispense free health care, while bringing in untold amounts of illegal drugs into the country. President Obama wants them all to stay, and has proven it by refusing to deport even those illegal aliens convicted of felony crimes. Babies born here by illegal aliens are called "anchor babies" because our laws have not been corrected which grant citizenship to those born here, regardless of the legal status of the mother. That is absurd. Illegal aliens in fact do tap into many taxpayer-paid Federal and State government benefits including food stamps, free school lunches, public housing assistance, Medicaid and many other programs. According to the Cato Institute, a family of three (illegal aliens) received $694 per month in 2010 from the state of California, under the Federal program called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. It is as if God is telling America that you didn't have a desire for your own offspring, so I am going to give you a whole lot of heartaches by bringing in people that you will desire much less as partial payment for murdering the innocent. That may not be politically correct, but it has a basis in fact as to what has happened to America since nine foolish Supreme Court justices amended God's Sixth Commandment in allowing the legalized murder of unborn children. There are consequences indeed to bad decisions and bad government for a formerly moral citizenry. I propose amnesty for unborn babies, not for illegal aliens. Were America to have a righteous president, he would be signing an executive order granting citizenship at conception to the offspring of legal residents of the United States. That would be helping the most needy and defenseless of all. And it would instantly ban court-sanctioned murder in the womb. What Lincoln did with the "Emancipation Proclamation" for blacks, Obama can do by freeing the unborn babies of all races with "Emancipation Gestation." Rick Wagner Pierceton, via email
