Irresponsible illegal immigrants
Article Last Updated: 02/18/2008 09:50:45 AM MST


After the immigration raid in Lindon at Universal Industrial Sales Inc., the wife of one of the arrested employees tried to gain sympathy by showing on Fox News a picture of their child. I don't have a lot of sympathy for undocumented people who break the law, then cry that they have families when they knew exactly what they were doing and the potential consequences.

It is extremely irresponsible to illegally cross into a foreign country, work illegally and set down roots by having babies when you know that at any time you could be deported with or without your family. If you're raising a family in which the children may be legal because they were born on American soil, and you are not, what kind of values are the children going to grow up with? That situation infantilizes the parents. We have enough adult children having children.

It's especially annoying when poor people have children and can't afford health care, food and clothing, so they jump on the welfare wagon and get handouts from churches. If you can't afford to have children and raise them properly, you shouldn't have them. Why should society raise them for you?

John Bigler
Salt Lake City
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_8293551