LBenjamin


 * LBenjamin ** ** HB24 **

**Hello. I am LBenjamin. I represent the state of Massachusetts. My political party is republican. The representative from my state that I agree with the most would be John Tierney. A website link to learn more about him is** []

__**// Interesting facts about Massachusetts //**__
 * 1) **Boston built the first subway system in the United States in 1897**
 * 2) **Norfolk County is the birthplace of: John Adams, John Quincey Adams, John F. Kennedy, and George H.W. Bush**
 * 3) **The American Industrial Revolution began in Lowell, Massachusetts**
 * 4) **The first Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in Plymouth**
 * 5) **John Adams, and John Quincey Adams are buried in Massachusetts**

__**// Massachusetts relating to the issue //**__
 * 1) **There are offices in Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts, New York City, and Rhode Island that provide legal assistance to people in the Northeast Corridor.**
 * 2) **Lawson & Weitzen is a full service law firm with 32 Partners and Associates serving clients in Boston**
 * 3) **FBI arrested Massachusetts lawmakers reissuing the call on illegal immigration in May, 2010**
 * 4) **Katharine Daniele is a Founder and Executive Editor of** // **The Women’s International Perspective** // **. In a May 31, 2006 she wrote a website article called "On Being Biased and Opinionated, the Immigration Debate, and George Lakoff's Frames."**
 * 5) **In October, 2009 a man from Massachusetts was charged for provide material support to terrorists**

**In my opinion a couple of the biggest issue for our country is the protection and defense system. National defense, criminal justice, and immigration all contribute to the security of the United States. So far, in history, there have been many terrorist attacks because of how easy we let people come into our country. If we created a more complex and secure systems, I think that terrorism would decrease and be less common over time. As a U.S citizen you are entitled in national, state, and local alections. You also have the right to travel on a U.S passport and much more.**

//**__ National Defense __**// : **The issues with National Defense create a huge impact on the United States. Anyone from another country or in the country illegally could just enter the U.S, join the military, and get their citizenship without a problem. Giving someone access to the U.S's protection system is a big deal and can be very dangerous. Especially if the person is a terrorist or harmful to our country and the people living in it.In the military you have access to military equipment and if someone is in it long enough, they have access to a lot more.**

__//** Criminal Justice **//__ : **There have been many cases in the past and even today that harmful and guilty people get away with problems that they have caused. They also don't get punished as much as they deserve sometimes. There are times where I think dangerous people should be sent to jail and sometimes never get out of jail. Some terrorist have been in jail before but get out and still do harmful things to innocent people. Every persons actions in the world will affect someone in some way. If we let the people, who make the greatest negative affects, away, it will create more problems instead of making the world a better place. With criminal justice they go through 3 main steps for the system. 1. law enforcement/police 2. adjudication/court 3 jails, prisons, probation and parole I do think that its a great idea to keep people on probation and parole because they are still keeping an eye on them so that the person doesn't do anything else illegal. But the court cases are most important because it decides the future of the criminal.**

__//** Immigration **//__ : **This is an issue that I believe would change the amount of terrorism if we payed more attention to it. Of course, not everyone who comes to our country is harmful. But most terrorist are from many other countries. There are many easy ways for someone to enter our country legally, whether they are harmful or not. The most common way someone who is not legal in the U.S becomes a citizen is by marriage. A terrorist could easily marry someone who is a citizen our country, become a citizen themselves, divorce, and than they are able to do whatever they planned to terrorize our county. Another easy way to become a citizen is that any child born in the U.S automatically has citizenship, even when both of the parents were in the U.S illegally.**

[|**http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:HR03210:@@@L&summ2=m&**] **You should support this bill because every little step to making our country a safer place is worth it. Anti terrorism would help the United States in a positive way because terrorism is an important danger to our home land and the entire world.**


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