Letters: Immigrants should head to Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter's house
IT'S interesting how our privileges and rights so often get mixed up. I always thought it was someone else's privilege, not right, to be invited into my house or country.
IT'S interesting how our privileges and rights so often get mixed up. I always thought it was someone else's privilege, not right, to be invited into my house or country.
Somehow this got translated into anyone who can get into this country - whether by walking, swimming or stowing away - is entitled to be here.
Since the powers that be say it's OK to enter and stay, maybe some citizens should go to Mayor Nutter's house, demand entry and then stay for a while. And bring signs in Spanish or any other language stating their right to do so.
It would be even better with a news crew to document the difference in response to this kind of attempted illegal entry.
Bruce Sloan, Philadelphia
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Right on medic's obit
Thanks to Laurence Barberra for his letter on Army medic David Jefferson, who died in Afghanistan and whose obituary appeared on Page 17 - though we should be grateful it appeared somewhere.
In a more just world, David Jefferson would've appeared on the cover of the Daily News, and Lindsay Lohan would be ordered to spend 90 days in a field hospital in Iraq or Afghanistan as a nurse's aide.
Tom O'Neill, Philadelphia
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Mexican hypocrisy
The answer to all three of those questions in the letter on immigration is because it is illegal! No country can withstand unsecured borders.
Mexico, by the way, has particularly strict immigration laws: illegals (border trespassers) are deported forthwith.
President Calderón's recent White House speech castigating Arizona for enforcing federal immigration laws (since the feds aren't doing it) was just grand hypocrisy. Obama and Congress gave Calderón a standing ovation! Congress is taking effete lessons from Obama and Pelosi as they try to turn the U.S. into France.
Georgia Makiver, Lansdowne