In the uproar over Megyn Kelly, I pulled out your web site to see what it said, expecting to get angry. Incidentally, thanks for elevating her fame. I did not know her, but thanks to you I know of her now — and she’s awesome. She is hard hitting — a worthy opponent for sure.

Your immigration memo pleasantly surprised me. Did you write those first paragraphs, I wonder, or did some politically correct staffer — I just want to be certain you’ve at least read it. You made sense in your basics. Yes, we should expect people to follow the law. When my kids choose laws they don’t like, I still expect them to follow them. Same with people coming to our country. That’s why you must follow sexual harrassment laws by the way. I’m sure Megyn Kelly could help you with where to draw the line.

Raising the H1 visa salary cut-off makes tremendous sense, to encourage companies to develop our own impoverished youth. I have seen first hand the phenomena you reference in this area.

However, when I look into the eyes of immigrants, I find you to be missing something big in your policy. Maybe it is not a feature common in your industry, but it is a feature we expect in our political leaders. It is called compassion. I think you work and live pretty close to the lady that should be a daily reminder to you of this feature. I suggest to you that for many women such as myself, she’s a 10, a role model. She says:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Author: Emma Lazarus, on the Statue of Liberty

If you could add some chapters to your policy about how you intend to complement your current policies with laws and policies that display our compassion as a nation, I could support that.

I hear the pope is visiting soon. This current pope has this feature down. Maybe you could shadow him for a week and learn how this is done.

I know that’s a lot to ask. Most corporations have a philanthropic division that “handles that” while they stick to their core business. The problem is, compassion IS America’s core business. It is one of the values at the bottom of what makes us great. We are a nation of immigrants and you know that. Our own people are not even reproducing fast enough to shut that off and still have a healthy labor force.

I could make a claim we have historically been a nation of people running from the law — from our Puritan forefathers on down. But we need not. Those were unjust laws we were running from. Marin Luther King, Jr. in his letter from the Birmingham jail said any law is unjust that you would not be willing to apply to yourself. Without strong mechanisms to let in the people on which we choose to have compassion, we have unjust immigration policy.

We are a nation that has the rule of law and it helps us maintain order, an order women who cherish security benefit greatly from. So I support your idea of crafting laws that we expect to be enforced. Further I support re-optimizing the system to educate and employ our own youth. But show me the plan that does that humanely for the lady’s people — the people fleeing unjust laws now, today — or worse yet fleeing lands neglecting a rule of law. It is not a policy that merely enforces current law first because the current laws, as you point out, are flawed.

Thanks in advance.

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