Time to deport illegal immigrants
Ruben Navarrette, I just read your column in the April 20 Daily Herald. You will probably think I am a racist or accuse me of racial profiling, but here goes.
I am tired of people like you standing up for people who have come here illegally and are taking advantage of our country and its programs. Do I feel sorry for these people? Yes, but the law is the law, and these people have broken them.
I am sorry, but the truth is the majority of them are from south of the border. I am tired of having to push one to vote in English. To listen to this message in English. And anything else I have to push one for.
No other group of immigrants have done to our country what these people are doing, and our elected officials and people like you are letting and encouraging them to do it. Our schools and hospitals are suffering for it. Our local, state and federal governments are going broke, but we have billions of legal U.S. citizens' tax dollars to fund programs for these people. Just look at the figures for the state of California!
Why was it possible for Presidents Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower to pass laws to round up and deport illegal immigrant to make jobs for legal citizens in this country but we can't seem to be able to do it now?
Cheap labor and votes maybe?
I challenge all legal immigrants who did it the legal way to stand up and demand that these people are deported and made to do it the right way.
David Snowwhite
Elgin