Honorable Jeh C. Johnson

9/21/2017

Honorable Jeh C. Johnson

c/o Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY  10019-6064

Dear Honorable Johnson,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in learning history, social justice, and public policy. In these subjects, I like to learn the need for Civil Rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, have reasonable immigration reform to help protect immigrants including refugees from being oppressed, and many others. Honorable Johnson, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to  explain how I find your work when you served as 4^th U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security to be very inspiring to me.

When you served as 4^th U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, I liked on how you worked with President Obama to help improve our country.  Also in your role I really liked on how you were a very strong supporter of Civil Rights by working to expand your department resources to combat against hate-crime to help protect minorities or people who are different, advocate for people with disabilities’ rights, and express the need for the Department of Homeland Security to reduce racial profiling to reduce discrimination against minorities.  On immigration reform, I really liked on how you and President Obama had the courage to be strong supporters of immigration reform like find ways to provide families or refugees have asylum form oppressive countries, expand the DACA program to help illegal immigrant children stay in the country while make them be eligible for a workforce including be allowed to renew a two-year from being deported, and create Southern Border and Approaches Campaign Strategy to focus on illegal immigrants or immigrants that commit violent crimes or use national security threats  when both political parties in Congress weren’t advocate for immigration reform.  I liked your approach to reform the department by improving hiring women including minorities to work for them and improve relations between FBI including law enforcement agencies to find ways to reduce counter terrorism, and provide more training programs to help train employees to understand signals of suspicious activities.  After you left public service, I appreciate on how you are a continuous supporter of Civil Rights, express the need for immigration reform to help protect immigrants including refugees from oppression while combat against immigrants who commit violent crime, and advocate for the need to end racial profiling.

Honorable Johnson, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different advance subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased. Your commitment to be a strong supporter of Civil Rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Also your work as 4^th U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security motivates me to continue my interest in learning history, social justice, and public policy. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need to make Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, find ways to have reform in the law enforcement resources to make them safe for people while reduce crime, have immigration reform to help protect immigrants including refugees from oppression, and many other issues.  

I strongly believe that you have made a great difference for our country when the political environment was difficult. I’m very proud on how you work hard to improve Homeland Security and help President Obama.  You have inspired me to work hard on my disability and to continue to be motivated to learn history including social justice.  I was wondering if you could please share with me what it was like serving as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and working with President Obama.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, making a great difference for our country, and inspiring me. Here is a picture of me as gift to you. I would like to get a chance to meet you so I can discuss and learn more about your work.  Please continue to advocate for common sense ideas when the political environment is difficult or when both political parties aren’t advocates.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Honorable Johnson sent me a photo of himself as a gift to me.