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I'm going to post interesting letters to the editor here. I hope you will borrow from them and write your own. More people are reading our forum but not enough. You can reach tens of thousands of your fellow citizens with your thoughtful, well-informed letters. Please try it. We need more writers. If you get stuck or need help, just let me know.

Scroll down to the bottom for the most recent letters.

This first letter is by our friend and fellow activist, Yeh Ling-Ling. She is a LEGAL immigrant who is trying to save the America we all love.

The original article can be found on SFGate.com here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... P3F6K1.DTL
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 (SF Chronicle)
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR



'High costs of the amnesty bill'

Editor -- The Senate immigration bill has been defended by promoters of virtual unlimited immigration, both from the left and the right. No wonder Americans are very angry at our elite.

If another amnesty is granted, millions of naturalized citizens could
become potential voters. Considering how close recent presidential
elections were, even if most naturalized citizens do not vote, is there a
chance that our immigration laws will be seriously enforced?

Newcomers will consume energy and need jobs, education, health care,
welfare and many other costly services. Due to their low incomes, any
taxes that most newcomers will pay could not offset even the cost of
educating their children, which averages $7,500 per child per year. For
the same reason, most immigrants granted amnesty and their relatives could receive an earned-income tax credit of up to $4,400 a year.

The United States has already exported high-tech and manufacturing jobs to Latin America and Asia, and imported workers from those regions. No Americans concerned about the future of American children should support this Senate amnesty bill, which would result in open borders for professionals and low-skilled workers.

YEH LING-LING
Executive Director
Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America
Oakland


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(Please note, this letter has only been submitted to the editor, it has not yet been published.)

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national ... _page2.htm

Editor:

Regarding our immigration imbroglio, the Times quotes Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) from a Sunday talk show: "I don't know why this word 'amnesty' is such a terrible word. I think these people would make good citizens. We ought to give them amnesty."

But consider an article from the Los Angeles Times last summer ("6 + 4 = 1 Tenuous Existence," 7/29/2006). The article quotes Alejandra, a Mexican woman who, with several sisters, originally entered California illegally and then, somehow, gained legal status. Nearly a decade ago, the sisters fled California. As the article explains, "[Alejandra] and her family moved to [Lexington,] Kentucky, where a friend said there was more work and there were fewer Mexican immigrants bidding down the wages for unskilled jobs." Thus, in Kentucky, they can "earn more than they did in Los Angeles, in a city where the cost of living is lower. Kentucky is now their promised land, and they talk about California the way they used to talk about Mexico."

Said Alejandra: "What we weren’t able to do in many years in California, we’ve done quickly here. We’re in a state where there’s nothing but Americans. The police control the streets. It’s clean, no gangs. California now resembles Mexico — everyone thinks like in Mexico. California’s broken."

Perhaps Congressman Rangel should rethink his enthusiasm about those who would receive amnesty. Does he want our whole country to resemble Mexico?

Paul Nachman
Bozeman, Montana

Note to editorial staff: The key Los Angeles Times article I quote was available online until very recently. Now it's apparently vanished into the pay archive. However, if you want to see it easily, I could email you the text and/or send the "captured" 279-kB MHTML document as an attachment.

NOTE to IFIRE forum readers: The LA Times article can be read in it's entirety at this old post: http://www.ifire.org/php_bbbb/viewtopic ... =alejandra


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http://www.post-trib.com/news/opinion/l ... rs.article

llegal immigrants add to gasoline costs

If you want to reduce gas prices without changing your lifestyle, don't boycott gas, call Congress toll-free at (866) 220-0044 and tell your senators and representatives to vote against comprehensive immigration reform.

You believe in supply and demand? Because the supply of gasoline is finite, more drivers means higher demand, which means higher gas prices.

If we give amnesty to 12 million to 20 million illegal immigrants, and they get to bring along their families, that could easily add more than 100 million people to our current population of 300 million. That means more drivers and higher gas prices.

If the guest-worker program also passes, it will add millions more gas consumers on top of the millions who receive amnesty. You must stop comprehensive immigration reform from passing, if you want to keep gas prices from skyrocketing.

We can actually reduce gas prices by securing our borders and cracking down on employers who employ illegals. Millions of illegal aliens will go home when they can't find jobs, and the demand for gasoline will drop. So will the price.

Amnesty rewards bad behavior and increases illegal immigration, as the failed 1986 amnesty has proven. Enforcing the law will benefit law-abiding people in many ways, including at the gas pump.

Cheree Calabro, Valparaiso,

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Indiana Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement


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https://www2.southbendtribune.com/stori ... PINION.sto

March 31, 2007


Reform is amnesty
YOUR OPINION

By CHEREE CALABRO

Passing comprehensive immigration reform (aka amnesty) will be bad for America. Amnesty rewards illegal activity and increases illegal immigration. The proof is in the pudding. In 1986, we expected to grant amnesty to 1 million illegals but about 3 million actually received amnesty. If that pattern holds true today, instead of 12 million receiving amnesty, 36 million may actually step forward. If everyone brings their wives and two children, our population would increase by 144 million virtually overnight. All these people consume energy, need jobs, education, health care and many social services that any taxes most pay will not cover due to their low incomes.

America takes in more legal immigrants per year than all other countries combined and it shows in the inability of U.S. Customs and Immigration Services to handle its current workload. Millions of immigrants who would benefit America are languishing in their native countries slogging through the bureaucratic nightmare to legally immigrate. Meanwhile, we consider passing comprehensive immigration reform and allowing millions to cut in front of them.

We do not need new laws. Our immigration law is not broken. What is broken is the implementation and enforcement of our current laws. The inefficiency and backlog at USCIS will only worsen if we force it to administer two massive new programs to (1) document the 12 million-20 million illegals already here and (2) run a new guest worker program bringing in millions more.

Part of the remedy is a free, easy-to-use, federally-approved program that Indiana employers can use right now to take the guesswork out of hiring workers. It is called the Basic Pilot Program and uses Social Security and Homeland Security databases to verify legal status. Another federal program called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements makes sure only legal workers receive public benefits. Unable to work or get welfare, most illegals will return home on their own. This will take years to accomplish, but will give us time to secure the borders and fix the USCIS which must be done before beginning any new guest worker program.

While immigration does not cause all our problems, it strains all our public services and makes it more difficult to solve problems for our legal residents. Remember: Immigrants are like apples. There are good apples and bad apples. Our problem is you simply cannot eat too many apples, even if they're all good ones. They'll make you sick.

Cheree Calabro is state director of the Indiana Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement, located in Valparaiso, Ind.


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http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a ... /OPINION01
IndyStar.com Opinion Letters to the editor

March 31, 2007


Guest-worker plan includes unacceptable numbers


The new comprehensive guest-worker bill being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives should concern all Americans. Although it does contain some much-needed security provisions, it would increase immigration at the same time good-paying jobs are leaving. HR 1645 would increase employment-based visas from 140,000 to 290,000 per year and would allow these new guest workers to bring up to 800,000 family members with them.

High-tech workers under the H1B visa program would not exceed 180,000 per year and, if all these visas aren't used in a calendar year, the reminder could be added to the next year's total. Immigrants with advanced skills are exempt from any visa caps, and most illegal immigrants will be put on the path to citizenship.

Sens. Richard Lugar and Evan Bayh are expected to support this bill. Of Indiana representatives, only Rep. Mike Pence from the 6th District is expected to support this large increase in immigration. These three members of Congress couldn't be more out of touch with their constituents and need to hear how you feel about this issue.

Greg Serbon
State director, Indiana
Federation for Immigration
Reform and Enforcement.
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http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a ... /OPINION01

12 million trespassers on our sovereign soil



The United Kingdom-Iran hostage issue concerns trespassing on a sovereign nation's territory. Whether the British Marines and sailors did so is questionable. But what would we do if this had happened to us? How would our government respond?

That's an easy one because the precedent has been set. Just look around: There are 12 million trespassers on our sovereign soil right now and we aren't putting them on TV asking for an apology. Our government is inviting their dependents to come as well; it provides their children with an education, free medical care and jobs.

It's time the United States and its populace wake up to the fact that illegal immigration is an invasion that threatens our very existence as a nation. Our government leaders must start putting this country and its people above the selfish wishes of corporate interests.

Ronald Engel
Indianapolis


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Immigration from union member's point of view

Greg Serbon
Crown Point
From NWIndiana Times, Sunday, March 11, 2007 12:06 AM CST

The American people are calling for an end to mass and illegal immigration, but our elected officials (Democrats in particular) seem to side with the racial and corporate lobbyists. Sen. Evan Bayh voted for the largest increase in immigration this country has ever experienced.

As large corporations lay off thousands of Americans, these same Americans will have to compete with the hundreds of thousands of new immigrants allowed to enter America if a bill like Senate Bill 2611 becomes law.

We are asking Bayh to stand by the American worker and enforce current immigration laws, while rejecting any guest worker amnesties proposed in the Senate.

The Democratic Party used to be the working people's party. We are looking for them to take a stand against corpora te greed and depressed wages.

Greg Serbon, State director, Indiana Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement, Valparaiso


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http://www.post-trib.com/news/opinion/l ... rs.article
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June 7, 2007


Citizens must solve immigration problem

The debate in Congress over the illegal alien problem in this country has brought me to one frustrating conclusion.

Our elected officials aren't able or willing to make the hard decisions for fear of not being re-elected. Hence, the problem's ultimate solution depends on "we the people."

We the people must be willing to make the sacrifices necessary to end the illegal entries into this country. The only solution I see is to stop the hiring of illegal aliens.

We must have the courage to ask business owners if they use undocumented workers. If so, we should not patronize those businesses.

I am no different than anyone else. I like to get the biggest bang for the buck. Maybe it's time to see what's best for the long haul, rather than immediate gratification.

It's said the jobs being done by illegal aliens are jobs American citizens won't do. I did those jobs in my teens. I pumped gas, washed cars for tips only and labored for builders and brick masons. It was hard work, but an honest buck.

We should tell our children and grandchildren that a hard day's work will build character. It may possibly encourage them to continue on to higher education. Hard work can be a great motivator.

In the end, if nothing is done, the only people to blame are we the people. We continue to elect the inept politicians. We continue to patronize the businesses hiring illegal aliens. We can't have our cake and eat it too.

It's time to step up.

Ralph R. Freimuth, Hobart

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Bush still refusing to secure our border

Why can't or won't George W. Bush secure our border with Mexico?

Is he just stubborn or is he actually that ignorant?

We have a serious illegal alien problem in this country, to which he seems oblivious.

Maybe it was too much to expect Bush to alienate (pardon the pun) his rich Southwestern friends by preventing them from exploiting illegals by using them as glorified slaves to clean their mansions, tend to their gardens and watch their children.

The massive illegal alien population is just another problem for which Bush refuses to accept responsibility.

Ramon Romantico, Gary


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Here's a treasure trove of great letters!!! These people really know what they're talking about!

Monday, Jun 11, 2007
Posted on Sun, Jun. 10, 2007
Letters: June 10

http://www.star-telegram.com/244/v-prin ... 31176.html


Star-Telegram

'It might as well be 1986 all over again'

If Canada were sending millions of non-English-speaking, poorly educated white people to our country to use our social services and bankrupt our taxpayers, I'd still oppose illegal immigration.

This isn't about race, and I resent Ruben Navarrette Jr.'s use of such code words as nativist to imply that only racists oppose illegal immigration. (See Friday column "And he comes out swinging.")

This country is at war, and the idea that it's OK for people to sneak across our border without background checks isn't only ridiculous -- it's dangerous.

Stop calling us racists!

-- Ron Bridges, Fort Worth
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Why pass new laws that no one intends to enforce? Why bother fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan against terrorism if our own borders are wide open and unprotected?

Our elected representatives are at best disingenuous and at worst traitorous in the way they treat border protection and illegal immigration.

America is a land of law and order, and when our leaders do not enforce the laws, the end can't be far off. We tried immigration overhaul in 1986 with 3 million illegals, and now it's 12 million-plus. Our medical and social services already are strained by the effects of illegals.

I'm also an immigrant. But I did it the right way. My family emigrated from Laos to escape communism. We're now all naturalized citizens.

I'm tired of having to press 1 for English when I call a government office or business. I didn't get to go to school to learn in my native tongue; I had to learn English.

-- Sarah Hummer, Fort Worth
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Under the immigration bill now apparently dead in the Senate, the millions who came here illegally would have been allowed to stay. Although they would have had cumbersome hoops to jump through, they still would have been rewarded for coming to the United States illegally.

If the executive branch can't enforce our immigration laws, it surely wouldn't have been able to enforce the many required provisions under the Senate bill. The executive branch is charged with enforcing the laws. If we have people in the executive branch who took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution and now say that it can't be done, they need to resign or be impeached.

The concept that we can't enforce our laws because so many people break them is the first step toward anarchy and sends a clear message to the world that if you come in droves, we can't stop you. Imagine that -- the strongest nation on Earth being rushed and simply laying back and allowing it to happen!

-- Loree Rager, Bedford
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Some of us still remember the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986. At the time, IRCA was hailed as the end-all immigration reform that would fix the problem of illegal immigration, secure our borders and provide "relief" for millions of illegal immigrants who already had entered our country.

The result was that more than 3 million of these illegal aliens were given amnesty, our borders remained as porous as ever, and millions of new illegal aliens recognized that what had happened before would eventually happen again.

Well, that was just 20 years ago. Now more than 10 million new illegal aliens live within our borders, and if we legitimize these 10 million, another 25 million of them will be here by 2025.

How many times does this have to happen before our government learns that you don't fix a problem by rewarding those who engaged in criminal activity and giving them what they wanted in the first place? We've got to break this cycle or we'll be doomed to repeat it forever.

Also, doesn't it strike anyone as odd that we're one of the few countries that grant citizenship to the children of illegal alien parents who are breaking the law by being there in the first place? Kind of like saying that if you rob the 7-Eleven but make it out of the store, you get to keep the money. An interesting concept, to say the least.

-- Ben F. Bruce, Arlington

President Bush seems to insinuate that anyone who opposed the immigration bill (amnesty) is a bigot and a racist. Oh, brother!

Anyone with common knowledge knows that this is about national security and all the other problems caused by illegal immigration. Let's not play the race card.

Four years ago, Bush wanted to grant amnesty to 7 million illegal immigrants. Now he wants to help do something similar for 12 million.

He and his political buddies promise to secure the borders, which the government has promised to do for 30 years. If they were serious about it, there'd be 50,000 armed National Guard troops on the southern border, another 50,000 on the northern side and probably the same for the east and west coasts.

It might as well be 1986 all over again, when the government granted amnesty to 3 million illegal immigrants and then broke its promise to seal the U.S.-Mexico border.

-- Nicholas Luscri, Hurst

The June 3 news story by Jim Rutenberg and Carl Hulse of The New York Times ("Immigration bill is causing fissures in Bush's base") continued the liberal media spin on illegal immigration that causes me great concern.

And the "What's next" fixture at the bottom of the story explained matter-of-factly that the proposed legislation "would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the country and work legally by paying fines, learning English, passing criminal background checks and holding steady jobs."

Wow, that sounds terrific. Wish it were factual.

Fact: Applicants could get, and renew indefinitely, their Z visas without fines, and without having to speak English, until and unless they applied for citizenship. This was just another incentive for them to remain a permanent underclass and never assimilate or become U.S. citizens.

Many of the invaders do not want to assimilate, do not want to speak English and do not want to become citizens. With guest workers, we would just create a permanent underclass of low-paid, non-loyal workers.

Here's an idea: Why not objectively report both sides of an issue and let your readers decide what is in the best interests of our country?

-- Adam Siegel, Fort Worth

Bud Kennedy's "Wise advice" was so typical of the media mind-set about the illegal immigrant situation. (See June 3 column "Wise advice: Don't live in this county if you're sick, needy.")

I'm proud to live in Wise County, not because our county commissioners cut off aid to illegal immigrants but because it's a good place to live. Don't blame the Wise County commissioners because of their stand.

Everything could be made so easy if we were to adopt Mexico's immigration laws. They're simple, direct and easy to understand. After all, we're neighbors, so what's wrong with copying some of their good laws?

But our national politicians are like Kennedy: They just don't get it. And then Kennedy blames the locals for not being compassionate and in some cases being racist.

Too bad, Bud, but I like being Wise.

-- Charles Randall, Paradise


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http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a ... /OPINION01


IndyStar.com Opinion Letters to the editor
June 12, 2007


Some simple steps for immigrant solution


Now that members of the Senate have stopped S.B. 1348, which would have been a disaster, let's get serious about immigration.

Enforcement, enforcement, enforcement. Without the will to enforce our laws, you're just wasting time passing bills.

You promised us a fence. Build it.

You promised, approved and funded the hiring of more Border Patrol agents. Hire them.

You promised us an end to the practice of catch and release. Live up to it.

Stop telling us you can't round up 12 million illegal aliens. You have been unwilling to round them up and enforce our laws for more than 20 years.

Quit telling us that our immigration laws are "broken." They aren't broken. You simply haven't used them.

Fine the employers, deport those caught committing crimes, quit providing incentive for them to come, and attrition will take care of the rest.

Natisha Cooper
Indianapolis


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Subject: Responding to article by Castaneda


Dear Editor:
On 6/13, Jorge G. Castaneda, former foreign minister of Mexico, published an article in the L.A. Times in which he wrote: "The collapse of the bipartisan immigration deal in the Senate last week sends a terrible message..." How would Mr. Castenda feel if (former)government officials in other (Latin American) countries made similar statements in response to Mexico's efforts to control its borders? Would he and other Mexican leaders feel OK that foreign governments should constantly interfere with and try to impose their will on Mexico?

Mexican citizen Carlos Slim is now the world's second wealthiest person. Instead of pressuring American taxpayers to support his countrymen, Mr. Castaneda should pressure his corrupt Mexican government to improve life for Mexicans. I would urge Chinese and Irish American immigration activists to do the same. (I would feel embarrassed to pressure my neighbors to feed my kid.)

Sincerely,

Yeh Ling-Ling
Executive Director
Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America
1904 Franklin Street, Suite 517
Oakland, CA 94612

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VOP: Indiana senators out of touch with constituents on immigration
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Blame government, not illegal immigrants

R.E. Dudenski emphasizes that immigration law allows immigration based on a quota system.

Illegal entry compromises the legitimacy of any quota system or the law itself.

These are fundamental expectations. You need enforcement to make a law legitimate, and that is where the federal government failed, not the illegal immigrants.

Specifically, the federal government never armed any local, county or state law enforcement agencies with the jurisdiction to enforce immigration laws. Employers were never targeted for breaking the law when hiring illegal immigrants.

President Bush is mistaken when he says illegal immigrants are taking jobs Americans won't do. They simply don't want to do them for the wages being offered.

Employing illegal immigrants is the next-best thing to slavery.

Therefore, the core of this immigration debate is really about a system failure and not that illegal immigrants maliciously broke the law.

The border patrol was just an obstacle course because once you got past it, there really wasn't much deterrence.

The suggestion that illegal immigrants are criminals is just a clever guise to absolve the federal government of responsibility.

You might as well have put up a sign on the border, reading: "Help wanted, but come at your own risk -- political oppression may apply once pressure is place upon you by our citizens!"

Therefore, Dudenski's argument that bank robbers and illegal immigrants should suffer the same fate is comparing apples and oranges. We do not prevent local law enforcement from prosecuting bank robbers, and we sure don't encourage it.

The reality is, the federal government sent out an open invitation to anyone who is willing to work for $4 an hour without benefits.

Juan Huizar, East Chicago


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I have written several letters to the editor about illegal immigration and have sent them to multiple newspapers; the Star, IBJ, Recorder, etc. None of them have been printed although I have had many other letters printed in the Star and particularly the IBJ. I'll be happy to share them if anyone is interested.


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Below are letters to the editor in a San Diego area newspaper re. establishment of day laborer centers (euphemism for illegal alien hiring centers) at Catholic churches. This plus the "sanctuary movement"... with the latest occurrence at St. Luke's Episcopal church in Long Beach--and who knows where else at this point--will be giving churches (not just Catholic ones either) "black eyes" as they are breaking the law by aiding and abetting, If Elvira Arellano had been taken out of that storefront Methodist church in Chicago to enforce the deportation order last summer, this escalating flaunting of the law might not have happened, at least in CHURCHES! This is more than "political correctness"--it has gone haywire! (I know the authors of both of these letters.) Phyllis

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Letters to the Editor - 7/27/2007

By: Readers of the North County Times and The Californian

It is lawbreaking, not religion, that is being protested

I read the Community Forum in the North County Times, "Fallbrook protest taps anti-Catholic bias," July 11. Anti-Catholic bias? What? When the Catholic Church breaks the law they cry bias?

The real question here is why does the Catholic Church believe they are above the law? Bill Donohue [president of the New York-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights] in his Community Forum expends energy and effort against the San Diego Minutemen. The Catholic Church is running an illegal employment agency, where tax evasion and worker abuse are the cornerstone of the illegal employment agency. It is lawbreaking that is being protested, not religion.

This is an irresponsible Community Forum designed to inflame the public. Instead of wringing their hands and whining, the Catholic Church should immediately close the illegal day worker hiring center they are running.

Robin Hvidston

Upland
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Church needs to 'practice what it preaches'

I am a former Catholic who strongly disagrees with Father Bud (Kaicher) at St. Peter's for running a day laborer hiring site at his church in Fallbrook. Day laborer sites are a phenomenon of the illegal immigrant invasion and they aid and abet this criminal activity. I am disgusted with the Catholic Church and its actions to hide pedophile priests and to support illegal immigration. It doesn't seem to be following the good book that I was taught to follow in Catholic school.

They say that we should help our brothers and I should contribute money to that effort. I say to Father Bud and Cardinal Roger Mahony that the church should put its money where its mouth is. I believe the Catholic Church has the largest private hospital and school systems in the U.S. I will be glad to contribute when the church has opened up all of its classrooms and hospital beds to nonpaying illegal immigrants. Wouldn't that be the charitable thing to do?

"Practice what you preach," as the saying goes. I don't think I'll have to pull my wallet out very soon, do you?

Arne Chandler

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