Letter to the editor

The number of illegal immigrants in the United States really didn't register until hundreds of thousands of them were seen on television pouring into the streets in protest of whatever penalties congress is about mete out. Imagine what it would have looked like if all twelve to twenty million of them were seen flooding the landscape. Are we to believe that all or most of them came over the fences and across the border unseen by border patrols? That would seem about as credible as our reasons for invading Iraq. Would it be too far fetched to assume that a good percentage of them got here in trucks and buses provided by the big corporations lusting after cheap labor to fill the jobs Americans allegedly refuse to do? Did our government just look the other way? Of course I don't know and will most likely never know. What I do know is that whatever side of the issue you're on it is fraught with dangerous implications. So many people illegally entering this country is, in itself, a frightening and almost unbelievable revelation. What assurance do we have that our cheese cloth borders will not be open sesame to 'visitors' far less welcome than illegal immigrants seeking jobs. Think of it, twelve to twenty MILLION people, unseen, undetected and undocumented. CARAMBA!

George Morin
Auburn