ILW.COM - immigration news: Letter From Robert

Dear Editor:
I was not only disappointed but shocked to read your editorial "Why the Law Should Be Broken" about the long wait for spouses and children of permanent residents. A more appropriate title would have been "Why the Law Should Be Changed," thus respecting the sacredness on the law. This opinion is similar to an opinion shared by the Industrial Barons of England and the US back in the mid 1800s. As long as they made a profit, it did not matter that black soot belched from their chimneys, that children as young as 10 slaved 12-14 hours a day in their factories.

Apply that analogy to your view of immigration. America's immigration system is so wrecked that one day (in a history repeating way) American citizens will eventually vote in angry immigration restrictionists who not only slow down immigration but shut it off altogether. Just look at the House, which now has 65 members of the Immigration Reform Caucus. And in the Senate, Gramm of South Carolina and Chambliss of Georgia are committed to curbing immigration.

If you would stop lobbying for amnesties, which most Americans are vehemently against, then the future might hold a more gentle change in the immigration laws. If we had a tightly regulated system, which put a premium on productive and educated immigrants instead of desperate peasants, no one in this country would even think about immigration policy.

We shall see what the future holds to determine if I am right.

Robert B.
El Paso, TX

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