Dear Editor,
Regarding the letter to the Dispatch by James Fennell. I do want
to apologize for giving the wrong impression that nothing should be
done about illegal aliens.
Dear Editor,
Regarding the letter to the Dispatch by James Fennell. I do want to apologize for giving the wrong impression that nothing should be done about illegal aliens.
According to the executive director of the Minuteman, says that for Bush’s plan to work you would need to deploy 30,000 to 40,000 troops, that anything short of that would be pointless.
The thousands of Guard troops who will be rotated to the border over the next year will do so during their annual two- to three-week training periods. In other words, they will be deprived of time to train for war missions or natural disasters in order to drive trucks and staff desks for the Border Patrol.
President Bush has already weakened the National Guard by treating it as a disposable force that can be used to compensate for a too-small regular Army. Now he will establish an ugly precedent: tasking the Guard with a new burden for the sake of scoring political points.
You want to stop people from coming here from Mexico and Latin America illegally, I’m all for it, but you have to have the U.S. government force the big American corporations that open sweat shops abroad to pay the people there a decent wage. When my late brother, a Jesuit priest was assigned to Latin American back in the ’80’s, these companies paid people less than 10 cents a day. That has not changed significantly.
Bottom line is that National Security involves a lot more than a full clip of 5.56mm cartridges.
We need immigration reform, but please let’s use a better solution than more armed conflict.
MaryJacinta Silva, Gilroy
