Letters to the Editor
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‘Immigration Dynamic’
Twenty one years experience with the unenforced Simpson-Mazzoli immigration bill makes it unlikely that the Washington political elites will allow anything effective to be done to control the borders or to stop the massive new influx of illegal immigrants that would follow the passing of the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill [Editorial, “Immigration Dynamic,” June 4, 2007]. Criminals, drug dealers, disease carriers and Jihadists will all be coming in.
The Sun, like the Wall Street Journal, and the business community, is concerned only with the hotly disputed economic benefits of illegal immigration and not whether America as we know it — including our tradition as a nation of laws — will be ended.
Also ignored is the reality that the new immigrants like the ones already here will vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats to end the American exceptionalism that created and built the nation that saved civilization from Hitler, Imperial Japan, and Stalinism.
The real issue is whether this great nation will be the only one in history to passively allow its society to be replaced by a version of the corrupt, repressive, failed political systems that are the only ones known and understood by the coming third world majority.
HARRIET RUBIN
New York. N.Y.
‘Defending Justice Thomas’
Your June 7 editorial concludes with the words, “Justice Thomas is capable of thinking for himself … ” [Editorial, “Defending Justice Thomas,” June 7, 2007].
That may be so, but he certainly doesn’t seem very capable at thinking on his feet. Justice Thomas sat through the 68 hours of oral argument in the Supreme Court’s current term without uttering a word. A tally by McClatchy Newspapers found that Mr. Thomas has spoken a mere 281 words since October 2004, compared to nearly 35,000 words by Justice Stephen Breyer. This is one quiet character.
MARTIN LEVINSON
Forest Hills, N.Y.
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