Thread: Letter: Writer wants to ask Navarette....

Workers hurt
Article Launched: 11/10/2008 11:06:51 PM PST

When Ruben Navarrette remarks that "it is remarkable that so many of those who rail against illegal immigration don't really understand the terrain," this is just another ho-hum excuse to avoid confronting the basic issues of this massive unlawful migration.

With our national jobless rate nearing 7 percent nationally, and 7.3 percent in California, we still hear the shrill clamors from sundry ideologues to insure the legal presence of some 3 million illegals in California and 12-plus million nationally.

These ideologues seem to have little concern for the mega billions annually these unlawful migrants are costing American taxpayers. It's $10 billion annually in California, a state with a $11 billion deficit.

Any American legislator with a modicum of compassion for the welfare of unskilled American workers and innocent American taxpayers should have long since refused these attempts to exacerbate the welfare of low-skilled Americans.

It's bottom-of-the-barrel wage rates, not hard work, that unskilled American workers reject because they can't maintain their dignities or feed their families. I'd like to ask Mr. Navarrette, why in light of our current economic crisis, should any illegal immigrant be employed, granted legal status, or sanctuary, while millions of American workers remain jobless?

Mike Scott, Glendora
http://www.sgvtribune.com/ci_10952834?source=rss

Good letter, but Navarette won't change as he is too emotionally committed to his pro-amnesty position. Facts and logic, what's good for American workers, etc. mean little to the open border crowd.

its a good question, but hes not going to answer it.

Good question and common sense would have to dictate we should not even entertain the notion of granting illegal invaders anything, but a one- way ticket home!

Unfortunately, guys like Navarette have allowed their allegiance to something other than this country and its citizens, to demolish any ability they may have had to exercise common sense on this issue. They continue to demonstrate this time and time again!

I think Navarette needs to be replaced with a foreigner who is paid half as much. Just think how much money the Union Tribune would save!!

In fact we should support a limited DREAM Act, for those illegal aliens who go to journalism school and become reporters.

I emailed this and all of the replies to Navarette and the editor of the S.D.U.T.

You can e-mail Navarrette at:

<ruben.navarrette@uniontrib.com>

When Ruben Navarrette remarks that "it is remarkable that so many of those who rail against illegal immigration don't really understand the terrain," this is just another ho-hum excuse to avoid confronting the basic issues of this massive unlawful migration.

I think Ruben is the one who doesn't understand the terrain. American citizens are sick and tired of footing the bill for millions of illegals. End of discussion.