If only they did their jobs almost two decades ago and adhered to all the warnings sent to them by the Department of the Interior, three U.S. presidents and several members of Congress we wouldn’t be in the predicament we all face today to include a reputation left behind now in history books.
Instead of heeding the warnings on the influx of, and dependency on, foreign cheap labor our elected leaders further opened the gates in order to appease their own personal self-interest agendas and the business community such as the Saipan Chamber of Commerce and the hotel association.
Where are the economic benefits they promised?
Where is the prioritized training of our local workforce?
Do any of you the voters, know who drafted and signed the joint resolution dated March 7, 2007 and sent to Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman and ranking member Domeninci regarding a “UNIFIED position fully supporting the federalization of our local immigration control”?
Look no further, they are seeking re-election again.
A unified position was made without informing you, the people of the commowealth.
In our view, the incumbent elected leaders washed their hands after they had benefited a great deal from their own creation and today they are seeking another delay.
Anyone ever wonder why the Department of Homeland Security is silent?
Simple. Our incumbent elected leaders now seeking re-election can no longer be trusted for they have all failed our people in the protection of our social and cultural well-being.
We are now in danger of becoming minorities in our very homeland as warned by U.S. officials.
We leave all of you, our people, the voters, with this thought in mind, and ask yourselves the question as to who benefited from the “promises of economic prosperity — our homeland or our neighboring foreign countries?
Ask yourselves further whether the intent in our Covenant regarding economic self-sufficiency as a self-governing commonwealth has been achieved?
If your answer is NO, then you are all correct. Otherwise immigration control will still be in our hands.
Oops, and please do not forget the former garment industry executives now sitting in the executive branch asking four more years of bitter times, now with a new slogan “LET IT BE.”
They are still suing the Department of Homeland Security and at the same token are asking why the federal government is SILENT.
Its time that the federal government clean up the mess left behind by our incumbents.
Time for change, and change is coming real soon.
GREGORIO CRUZ JR.
Taotao Tano
