Governor Tom Ridge
Homeland Security Adviser
Office of Homeland Security
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Governor Ridge:

Congratulations on your appointment to run the new Department of Homeland Security, which will include the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Michelle Malkin's book Invasion describes how the INS continues to permit terrorists and criminals to enter the U.S. Have you read it? The New York Times recently disclosed that the Bush administration has begun to monitor Iraqis inside our country to identify potential domestic terrorist threats posed by sympathizers of the Baghdad regime. But Malkin says "there is no indication what federal authorities are doing to locate the untold numbers of illegal aliens from Iraq who have streamed across our open borders." Can you tell us what is being done to stop the illegal immigration problem? And can you assure us that the Administration will not move to grant an amnesty to those illegals already here?