(Population control: reply). (Letter))

Mr. Huessy has advanced a course of action that can be tested against the nations ideas of right and wrong. He argues that immigration laws should be enforced because the country is flooded with immigrants. The fact that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants seems to be forgotten. Todays illegals - like every immigrant cohort in the past - are hard-working who came here to give themselves and their families a better life. It is too bad that the immigrants have to be illegal. They are the victims of an unjust law that was passed in 1924 long after the frontier closed and is a reflection more of racism and anti-Semitism than of any inability to absorb immigrants. 40 years ago immigration law were enforced when thousands who were attempting to escape from Hitlers Europe were sent back to their deaths as being likely to become a public charge. It is difficult not to become emotional when the shameful past is repeated. Now hundreds of Indochinese refugees are refused a place in the U.S. In 1977 66 boat people were taken in by little Israel - a nation that has found room for more immigrants in proportion to its population than did any other country including the U.S. at the height of immigration at the beginning of the 20th century. Immigration laws as they now stand in the U.S. are not needed. Any individual who is able and willing to work need not be turned away.