ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: There is no justification

Jim Jones’ opinion piece from July 24 illustrates how illegal immigration has helped to corrupt American society. Here is a former Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court justifying the violation of our nation’s immigration laws because he has concluded that these laws are not rational. He is in effect condoning the breaking of the law. Why not enforce the laws we have, and then work to change them legally through the proper legislative channels?

Furthermore, he claims that Social Security and Medicare taxes are being paid! But how is this possible if many of the illegal immigrants are not being reported as an employee, but instead are being paid under the table?

Throughout my career in California, I cared for many illegal immigrants, and a few of them confided to me that they were voting, despite claims that there was no evidence that they were voting.

Also, Jim Jones makes the spurious accusation that only through “white nationalist glasses” can someone jump to what he considers to be “faulty” conclusions. May I remind Mr. Jones that Jocelyn Nungaray was sexually assaulted and murdered by two Venezuelan illegal immigrants. The 12-year-old girl was a Hispanic American. I am a Chicano, and through my Hispanic glasses, I see a great deal of problems related to illegal immigration. You do not have to be a “White Nationalist” to conclude the obvious.

DANIEL FLORES, M.D. 

Hayden