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Ms. Tiller,
I have read & re-read your response (which I very much appreciate receiving) concerning a point in Ms. Calongne's platform addressing requirements for U.S. citizenship. Unfortunately, it would appear that the document we received in the mail from Ms. Calongne's campaign, when compared with your response, does not match.
Either Ms. Calongne believes standards do not exist and need to be in place (her flyer) or she believes the standard that exists need to be enforced (your response).
If Ms. Calongne feels "standards may currently exist in the immigration and naturalization requirements [but] they are clearly not being enforced or taken serious enough", I would appreciate a documented example of an instance wherein said standards were not being enforced or were not being taken serious enough. In the case of not being "taken serious enough", I would ask an additional explanation as to the basis for deciding the level of not-having-been-taken-seriously-enoughness of the documented instance. If such an example is not supplied, I will have to conclude there is no basis for the claim of "not being enforced."
If Ms. Calongne's platform is one that calls for current laws of the U.S. government to be enforced, I strongly believe that is what the wording on her flyer should represent rather than an implication that such laws do not exist. If a candidate's literature does not accurately present the views of the candidate, how is a voter such as myself supposed to understand the candidate's positions?
Yours truly,
J. R. Maddnen
Emily Tiller <emily@calongneforcongress.com> wrote:
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:57:50 -0600
From: "Emily Tiller" <emily@calongneforcongress.com>
To: "J. R. Madden" <jrmaddog@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Calongne flyer rec'd ...Our intention was not to reduce the requirements at all. Laurinda fully believes that anyone applying for citizenship be required to write English as well as read, speak and understand English. Laurinda has this point in her platform because she believes that while these standards may currentlyexist in the immigration and naturalization requirements, they are clearly not being enforced or taken serious enough.Thank you for your concern!On 2/10/08, J. R. Madden <jrmaddog@yahoo.com> wrote:Ms. Tiller,On 09 February 2008, we received a flyer from "Calongne for Congress" stating two points which are, I assume, from Ms. Calongne's platform. The second reads "require that applicants for U.S. citizenship speak, read and understand English."From U.S. government website http://www.uscis.gov/, I note the following:Language
Applicants for naturalization must be able to read, write, speak, and understand words in ordinary usage in the English language. Applicants exempt from this requirement are those who on the date of filing:
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Emily Tiller
Campaign Manager
Calongne for Congress
225-571-0109
