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Nick Ely Arkansas Moderate

My Bill: Immigration/BorderPatrol

Purpose: The purpose of our bill is to decrease illegal immigration at the Southern border. Our bill will help decrease the rate of terrorists and weapons that illegally enter into our country. Over the past few years our nation has been harmed by illegal immigrants both criminally and economically. Illegal immigrants have been taking jobs that our workers need because they will work longer hours for less as long as they are not reported. Criminally, the illegal immigrants bring unknown and possible terrorists into our country, giving those immigrants the chance to damage our nation's welfare. Our bill will help stop this economic problem. Another problem that our bill would solve is to stop the smuggling of dogs, humans, and illegal drugs. Drug cartels are increasing the rate of drug addiction in our country, a problem that needs to be stopped.

Support: People should vote on my bill because of all the good it will bring to America. Also, compared to a lot of other bills in place, mine is much less expensive. My bill will do many positive things to America. Some of these things are; Increase in jobs because we are increasing checkpoints and actual border patrol. We will also be hiring pilots to fly helicopters along the border. This will bring some job increases to America. Not only this, our men along the border will be well supplied. They will each have their own personal gun, taser, and pair of handcuffs. They will be very safe in doing their jobs as well. This bill will also bring more safety to America. It will do this because illegal immigrants are responsible for a portion of crimes across the country. Finally, with less illegal immigrants in our country, legal citizens will get more job opportunities. This is why you should vote for our bill.

The senator I am most alike is John Boozman. ([]) I am most alike Mr. Boozman because of our agreement on conserving energy. I may not have that as one of my three main ideas but I do feel it is important. If we conserve energy we can save money and we wouldn't use pollutants nearly as much and our air would be cleaner. We would also save animals lives who die from these horrible pollutants, I believe this is would make all our people happier. I believe Mr. Boozman feels the same way.

Five Interesting Facts:

1. Name came from Quapaw Indians 2. Motto= Regnant populous(The people rule) 3. Organized as a territory in 1819 4. Billy Bob Thornton is from there 5. Adopted present constitution in 1874

5 Issue Related Facts: 1. Arkansas has the highest percentage in the country with food insecurity per household with 17.7% (poverty) 2. Essential oils are often very expensive and very precious in Arkansas 3. Arkansas had 517.7 violent crime offenses per 100,000 people compared to the U.S average of 429.4 4. About 2,855,390 people live in poverty in Arkansas 5. Arkansas is not a leading oil producer

**//__Crime: __//** An issue that is important to me is crime. The fact that crime rate seems to be increasing across the nation infuriates me. What makes me more upset is that cities are laying off officers due to a lack of budget. But why lay off law enforcers? Find other jobs to lie off. It is sad to know that people in general are getting laid off, but the fact that the crime fighters are getting laid off makes no sense. Crime happens in a lot of places every day. People are harmed, mentally and emotionally scarred, and worst of all, killed. Lives are devastated and families are torn apart. For example, In Akron, Ohio, police officers were recently laid off. Some parts of that area have a crime rate that is too high and those are the areas that are being laid off. This to me is unacceptable. America should put a stop to this immediately.

**//__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Poverty: __//** __This is another issue that disappoints me. In poverty you can get lied to and pushed over by someone else. People who self-inflct themselves because of drugs alcohol and other things need to learn how to take care of themselves. They need to have the willpower and pride to go get a job and make a difference in this wrld. There are simply too many people in poverty in America. However, I do believe that people can do things to help those that are in need. I think we can set up charities and more shelters across America to benefit poverty-ridden people.__

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">**//__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Oil: __//** I believe that Oil in America is a huge issue. Everyone can see how the prices fall up and down all the time. I believe that if Alaska allows us to drill there and get our own oil, we can reduce foreign oil coming to America, the prices of oil, and the taxes that come with purchasing foreign oil. If everyone can make a little sacrifice we can make a huge difference and have ourselves spend a lot less money.

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