Dear Senator Murray,

I was gratified to read Secretary Clinton’s words addressing the challenge of immigration in Europe.  This issue is the beating heart of the opposition’s claim to legitimacy.  People of good will and intelligence know the complexities of legal immigration needs to be addressed in order to provide an adequate labor pool in the United States (and across Europe).  There are improvements that can be made through hard work and cooperation.  There is no magic in this recipe.

I am confident that our Democratic team can work with their colleagues across the aisle to identify and address reasonable and rapid improvement to legal immigration.  The health of our economy is at stake.  And I mean, today.  We have a huge problem, right now, with lack of qualified workers in many fields across Washington and the entire country. 

Obviously, we need to improve our local education systems at the same time if anyone expects native-born citizens to compete with the world.  These are basics I believe we can all agree upon!

Let’s make progress in the next two years.

Thank you for your service, Senator Murray.

Ira Worden

Kirkland, WA