Letters To The Editor

From: The LA Times

No technologically advanced industrial nation like the United States, which has 27 million functionally illiterate adults, needs to be concerned about a shortage of unskilled workers. It's a myth that Americans won't do hard or unpleasant labor; it's bottom-of-the-barrel wages that American workers reject. Millions of illegal immigrants have relentlessly increased the supply of cheap labor while steadily depressing the wages of unskilled Americans.

President Bush has never provided a scintilla of evidence regarding the economic justification for foreign guest workers. There are 7 million unemployed Americans, very many of whom are unskilled and directly compete with unskilled illegal aliens for the same kinds of jobs. It's high time to put these unskilled Americans back to work at legal wages and with decent working conditions.

MICHAEL SCOTT

Glendora

It's reassuring that a newspaper whose editorials support immigration can report the unvarnished truth in news articles: Immigrant workers contribute to unemployment among blacks. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s was able to reduce job discrimination because it took place before immigration skyrocketed.

Having volunteered for civil rights causes, I am disturbed by the backsliding in recent decades. I also am disturbed by the hypocrisy of businesses that prove they don't discriminate by hiring Latino immigrants even while they refuse to hire blacks.

KENNETH PASTERNACK

Santa Barbara

Can anyone explain to me big media's hard on for illegal immigration? It truly eludes me, if I remember aright didn't black folks used to get special treatment, and perhaps rightly so, so now that black folks are getting hammered by illegal immigrants it's as if they don't exist anymore.

Is the media fickle, stupid, evil, all of the above?

I'm glad the LA Times printed these letters but I've read their positions on illegal immigration and as far as I can tell all it would take for them to consummate that relationship would be some smooth Barry White and a icy cold bottle of Chablis.

Are illegals the new civil rights battle? I think we all know the big media is stuck in the sixties and are endlessly looking for a new crusade, even where none exist.

If illegal immigration is the new civil rights battle somebody at these publications needs to break out a dictionary and look up the word civil.

H/T The Lonewacko


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