THE ISSUE: Immigration in the United States and the recently failed legislation to address it.
“A Nation of Laws” should be required reading by all (Michelle Malkin, PostOpinion, July 2).
This country is a nation of laws, and the rule of law is the bedrock of our society. If we fail to abide by our bedrock principle, we become a society of arbitrary and capricious actions.
When we make exceptions to one set of laws, we will make exceptions to others, and anarchy and social disintegration will follow. Is that what Americans want?
Maruice Leon
Manhattan
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I always cringe when I hear people say that we are a nation of immigrants since I, myself, was born in the United States.
Slowly, but surely, those who attempt to revise American history in an effort to malign this great republic are finding themselves isolated as Americans are waking up to their nonsensical propaganda.
The truth always rises.
Lee Anthony Nieves
Charlotte, N.C.
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“Amnesty is dead” is an eye-catching opening sentence, but Malkin is much too savvy to believe those words, as are most citizens.
Remember the old Frankenstein movies, where the monster returns, even after the villagers have thrown it into a pit of fire?
As long as people continue to lobby against border security and employer sanctions, the amnesty monster will arise again.
My pitchfork is poised to stab that monster, again and again, until border security is an accomplished fact.
Barbara Vickro
Escondido, Calif.
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Robert Novak’s “Long Knives Out After Border Bill” (PostOpinion, July 2) refers to the xenophobia of opponents of the late, unlamented immigration bill.
Recent polls show that as much as 70 percent of Americans are for legal immigration, and almost the same number are against illegal immigration.
Novak is wrong: What killed the bill was not xenophobia, but amnesty-phobia.
John Pugmire
Manhattan
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Novak posits that anyone who opposed the immigration bill recently killed in the Senate is, ipso facto, a xenophobe. This proposition is a classic straw-man argument.
I am outraged that the president has quietly slow-walked border enforcement, delayed the hiring of additional border patrolmen and built only 15 miles of fence, when 700 miles were authorized and funded last year.
Absent improved border security, any easing of immigration requirements is simply going to swell the tide of economic refugees.
This country cannot take on the burden of millions of impoverished and undereducated immigrants without serious damage to the fabric of our society.
Is it unreasonable to expect that our government will live up to its promise and take some action to control this steady influx in a measured way?
Kenneth M. Steele
Bensalem, Pa.