Letters to the Editor
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I used to like Tom Tomorrow
Since when does wanting to secure our borders make you a right-winger? Especially when it was Ronald Reagan who signed an amnesty into law for illegal aliens in the 1980s?
Look, it is the corporatists running our country who love illegals, for the same reason they love NAFTA, GATT and the WTO - It's a way to flood the labor market with cheap labor, create a working class that's easy to exploit and break the back of the American workers?
Fellow liberal and environmental activist Edward Abbey opposed illegal immigration on those issues, as well as the fact that the US's environmental carrying capacity is nearing its peak. Abbey suggested that if we really want to help the Mexican people, don't let them into this country - instead greet them at the border with a rifle and a box of ammo and tell them to make some changes in their own country.
On a personal note regarding illegal immigration, I spent thousands of dollars helping my adopted son become an American citizen. Anyone who ever called me "anti-immigrant" to my face would be in for a fight and no amount of take-backs or apologizing would save him from a major ass-kicking.
Because of the trouble I went through and the many hoops I jumped through to bring him here, I see no reason why other people should be given citizenship as a gift for having broken our laws for so long.