Letter to the Editor of Sun-Sentinel Florida nespaper
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Immigration reform foes using scare tactics
August 18, 2007

Will you print a dissenting opinion to the scare tactics of your editorial, which tries to convince us that we shouldn't demand immigration reform because the jobs in hotels and gardens won't be filled?

As a citizen, I would be happy to do any job such as cleaning hotel rooms (I do that now for free) if the job paid a "living wage" for the work. If employers want to attract competent American employees, they need only offer decent salaries. This may bring the cost of a hotel room up, but it will also benefit citizens who don't send money to other countries. It would increase taxes collected by these companies and paid by the employees, and it would stop the drain on our emergency rooms and schools uncompensated for uninsured illegal immigrants.

Corporations and businesses using scare tactics to prevent immigration reform for their own selfish interests are the villains who do not serve legal immigrants and citizens of the United States.

Reina Schechter