"I enjoy the (Gustavo Arellano's) column and would like to try to explain some of the conservative viewpoints about illegal immigration.

The last terrorists who struck our country came from Yemen and Saudi Arabia (World Trade Center, 2001). The ones before that came from Oklahoma and Indiana (Oklahoma City bombing, 1995) and the previous ones from Saudi Arabia (World Trade Center, 1993). Our manufacturing jobs are going to China, our computer programming and help-desk jobs are going to India, and North Korea is developing nuclear bombs. The U.S. is creating thousands of Osama bin Ladens every day in the Middle East. Therefore, all Mexican illegal immigrants are dangerous.

The ironic thing about the current fear of illegal immigrants from Mexico is that the vast majority of them are of Native American descent; they aren't Spanish. Most of the Spanish in Mexico are doing well enough that they don't feel the need to risk their lives to earn meager wages in the U.S. The 'Indians' lived in North, Central and South America for thousands of years before the Europeans arrived. Upon arrival, the Europeans (English, French, Spanish, Dutch, etc.) proceeded to label all natives 'savages' and to annihilate as many as they could aim their weapons at so that they could take their land. Talk about 'breaking and entering' — try breaking, entering and murdering!

The other irony is that the western U.S. used to belong to Mexico. In the mid-1800s, the U.S. took this land from Mexico by killing several thousand Mexican troops. One of the American generals later wrote that this was 'not a proud day in American history.' Once again, breaking, entering, murdering and theft! A thinking person might ask himself how we attained the moral high ground in this immigration debate.

Those people who complain bitterly about illegal immigration need to read their history books and get a clue. If there is a God, we Americans should be asking 'May God forgive America' — not 'May God bless America.'  Any God who could bless this country, with its checkered past,  is not one that I would care to worship."

Jesse Collette
Colorado Springs

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