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Immigration fine, but it must be done legally
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While reading the story "Immigrants mixed on integration" in the Oct. 16 edition of the Times, I thought, what unmitigated gall!

The law-breaking illegal alien doesn't speak English because she doesn't WANT to be integrated? She isn't an immigrant. She, her husband, and millions others like her are transients taking jobs some legal citizen could be working! Why should she integrate? She has been here six years breaking the law and yet living in the best country on Earth. She likes it here. No duh! She doesn't have a Social Security number, yet. That makes sense. She isn't a citizen. Why should she have a Social Security number and all the benefits that go with it?

I don't care how nice some of these law-breakers are, they are breaking the law and so are the businesses that hire them! I can't hunt whenever, whatever and however I want. I have to buy a license to fish. Have we got laws for some, and for the rest the laws are irrelevant?

The illegal aliens are thumbing their noses at us. They siphon money out of our economy, schools, hospitals, low-income programs, and send it to Mexico. They drive illegally and recklessly without auto insurance. We all pay for this every time we vote for another referendum to raise millions of dollars for schools. We pay for it with outrageous medical bills. We pay for it in taxes. We pay for it in FICA "donations." We pay for it in insurance premiums. We might as well take a match to that money and burn it.

I am not against immigration. I am for it, but come here legally! Sure, it's hard. That is part of the price. Learn English. Pay taxes. Obey the laws of the land. Be an American!

We have an obligation as legal citizens to require that anybody who wants to immigrate comes in legally. We have that same obligation to demand they are free of disease, are not criminals, and have legal sponsors. Then those immigrating can become productive members of society, a welcome addition to the building of our community. Until those people who want to live in the USA do it legally, they are nothing but interlopers and usurpers of our children's heritage.

I will sign my name to this, as opposed to the myriad gutless and nameless who complained about the Cheese Days parade under chatroom pseudonyms.