Wilson Announcement Tour

Rep Heather Wilson's tour of the state announcing her United Senate campaign turned out to be a listening tour. It ended last Friday afternoon in Edgewood, east of Albuquerque in the community center. Questions and topics of interest raised by the 14 people attending started with taxes. Transportation and immigration were the other big topics. 

In handling immigration, Wilson said, the government has lost its credibility. To regain the credibility, the government must regain "operational control of the border." Doing so means a combination of many approaches, she said,such as enforcement, technology, and information and security systems. "I oppose amnesty," she said. "People should come here legally." A big percentage of people illegally in the country do come legally, but stay when their visa expires. "We need to be very careful how we talk about these things. We are a law biding people. We are a caring people."