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What's In A Name?

ICE recently tried to change its name from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to US Investigation and Criminal Enforcement (news item appears here). ICE's organizational mission is to provide investigation and criminal enforcement support to its sister agencies (Transportation Security Agency, Customs and Border Protection, etc.) within the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security, the largest part of the DHS. However, as recent news of round-ups of the undocumented in Southern California attests, ICE seems to believe its mission is that of hounding the undocumented using criminal investigation techniques. ICE should not lose sight of its primary mission: to help protect our homeland by hunting terrorists, it should leave dishwashers, cooks, and gardeners alone.

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Dear Editor:
The agreement between Pat and Ralph should not be that surprising. Both try to represent the American working class on the immigration issue, something our neo-conservative, neo-liberal elite globalists do not.

Ed Price

Dear Editor:
I am not sure they agree. if they do then they're not thinking. we bring people here to do a job that's not being done. it doesn't matter if two dollar an hour mexicans, or 5 dollar an hour computer peple or 100,000 a year doctors. the job is only worth so much to the companies. if you raise the minimum wage the jobs will go away altogather. if we refuse to hire people at 5 dollars an hour and demand that we pay 10 an hour. the companies in china, japan, korea, and everywhere eles will pay less than 5 and sell their products for less. now are you going to buy a 1000 dollar computer that was made in the US or you going to buy a 500 computer thats is more powerful but it was made in china. well the american people have already answered that one. they go for cheap. not just in computers but cars, clothes you name it and we look for the best price. and when the quality is just as good for half the price why pay more. these people who say every one should receive more money are just dumb. raising the minimum wage costs us jobs, it's been proven many many times. these are the same people who cry when the compaines move their operations over seas. it's better we bring in trained programers to work here then we keep the manufacturing here.

Luzr2242

Dear Editor:
Ralph Nader has it right. How can the Bush administration and its corporate paramours advocate bringing in even more unskilled and uneducated foreigners when millions of Americans are underemployed? My father didn't raise any fools, but if he did they never sat around our dinner table.

Dave Gorak, Executive Director, Midwest Coalition to Reduce Immigration
Lombard, IL