It is no secret that there are several pro-open border groups very active in Cobb County. These groups would love nothing better than to see our country turned over to the hordes of invaders from Mexico.

Among these groups, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund was started with a large grant from the Ford Foundation to assist legal immigrants and naturalized citizens who found themselves at odds with the system. It has since morphed into championing the cause of illegal immigration.

The same is true of La Raza, ("the race" in Spanish). Initially started to help legal immigrants, it, too, has taken its place to fight enforcement of our immigration laws. Both operate as non-profit, tax-exempt, groups.

With a more respectable name, GALEO still regularly plays the "race" and "hate" cards, branding those who support enforcement of the laws as "racists" and "hate mongers."

The Cobb-Cherokee Immigrant Alliance typically portrays efforts to enforce the immigration statutes as "racial profiling." Headed by Mableton resident Rich Pellegrino, it is a regular critic of law enforcement agencies which enforce immigration laws.

Churches, my own Catholic Church included, have been swept up in the false doctrines of the open-border advocates and brainwashed to think illegal immigration is a humane and moral issue. Far from it. It is a legal issue. The law should not interfere with the operation of churches, and churches should refrain from interfering with law enforcement.

Churches operate as tax-exempt organizations. As such, their facilities should not be used for political purposes, and certainly not used to promote groups that advocate protecting lawbreakers. Choosing to become a base for political action, they should forfeit their tax-exempt status.

Yet Sunday a Baptist Church in Smyrna is opening its doors to host a forum, present by the GALE0, assisted by the Georgia ACLU. Said forum is to drum up opposition to section 287(g), of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which authorizes Homeland Security to permit duly trained local law enforcement agencies to enforce the immigration laws.

Even with the overflow of illegal aliens, which has drained our social programs, overcrowded our schools, increased the number of blighted areas, taxed our medical facilities to the breaking point and increased unemployed among citizens and legal aliens, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

That light is being carried by Sheriff, Neal Warren, among the first in the state to embrace section 287(g) and utilize it to its utmost. As a result, more than 6,000 illegal aliens have been identified and 5,000 turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Wanted illegal alien felons are turned over to other agencies.

Working through Cobb County's Dustin Inman Society, founder D.A. King is a driving force, laboring within the framework of the law. He spends many days at the state Capitol, working for obedience to and enforcement of existing immigration laws.

The open-borders groups would have you believe that the work of Sheriff Warren and King is all racially motivated. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Cobb is home to untold numbers of illegal alien lawbreakers, primarily Latino. It is a fact that to find tomato worms, one does not look at pole beans, one looks in the tomatoes. To find illegal Latinos, one looks at Latinos. There is nothing racial there.

President Obama's support of enforcing immigration laws has prompted the open-borders groups to call section 287(g) "The Obama Administration's Racist 287(g) Immigration Policy." That is laughable when you realize that 287(g) was signed into law by President Clinton over 13 years ago.

Those who disagree with the law, churches included, are not free to break it. They are not free to protect those who break the law, or to advocate disobedience. They are only free to work to have the law changed. Anything else is un-American.

Those of us who believe in enforcing the law, and are against turning our country over to criminals, must take action. Speak out against any group, which is pushing a pro illegal alien/open border agenda. Keep speaking up until somebody listens.

We did not invite these lawbreakers here, but we can sure invite them to go back home and come back the legal way. It's up to us. Let your voice be heard.

Pete Borden is a mason in east Cobb.