Illegal immigration must stop



To the Editor:

If we follow your line or argument ["Ease path toward citizenship," Letters to the editor, July 24], more and more illegals will have infiltrated our once beautiful, educated and cultured community. There will be more crime, more health-care costs crowding our emergency rooms as their personal doctors' offices since they don't show any incentive to obey simple traffic laws or learn English. They crowd the 7-Eleven, and it's like a Third World country — not one English word is spoken or heard.
Your estimate of approximately 300,000 people entering the U.S. illegally is grossly low, except due to the effect of a few hundred overburdened border guards, sorely underpaid and over worked, and illegally jailed for doing their jobs, trying to lower the illegal drugs entering our country.

Whether their trip is perilous is irrelevant. It violates U.S. laws and is a crime, pure and simple. Processing their applications to become legal citizens should be more scrutinized, not made easier! After all, in 2001 on Sept. 11, those 19 terrorists hijacked four airplanes and blew up three buildings and killed over 3,000 people. Furthermore, most Americans are descendants of legal immigration not illegals! They do jobs and are paid below the prevailing market wage, in the black market, unrecorded and untaxed using false [Social Security numbers]! Furthermore, half of their incomes leave the country so our domestic economy actually shrinks as a result of them.

Finally, it is Mexico that is the problem. Twenty percent of their [gross national product] is from the drug trade alone. They can't provide for their own, so they come here illegally. If this policy was carried out globally, we'd have nearly 6 billion immigrants, and 5.5 billion would be unemployed; inflation would be through the roof! I say good riddance to them all!

Tom Gleason, Adelphi, MD