Claremont Insider: Human Costs

Friday, June 22, 2007

Human Costs

The Daily Bulletin today carried a letter by Claremont resident Carolyn Gonzalez, who criticized the federal government for failing to enforce immigration laws. Gonzalez argues that the U.S. is in danger of losing its identity by making too many accomodations to illegal aliens. She writes:

When persons who are here illegally demand the United States change its laws to accommodate them, demand that the citizens of the United States accept them as equal citizens and refuse to assimilate, they are not here to contribute to the United States. They are here to exploit the United States.

And Gonzalez doesn't even touch on the issue of illegals taking away jobs from legal citizens. The Onion offers a examination of that growing problem:


Immigration: The Human Cost