Dear Editor,
In early December, 2006 I had written in reference to your editorial “Wall of shame” where you were attacking the United States for building a fence to keep out illegals from Mexico and other countries. It should be noted that Mexico allows its territory to be used by illegal immigrants from Asia as well as other parts of Latin America.
In your editorial comment you said that America’s action was heavy-handed and that she should approach Mexico diplomatically on the issue. You further went on to comment: “The editorial juxtaposes the ironies inherent in America’s historic opposition to the Berlin Wall with the embrace of a wall on her own borders.”
America had approached Mexico, but the Mexicans have no intentions of stopping their illegals from invading America. And secondly, the equation of the Berlin Wall with America’s fence along her southern border is dishonest and inappropriate. The Berlin Wall was built to keep in East Germans from immigrating to Western Germany to freedom and America’s opposition to that wall was perfectly legitimate. The American fence is built to prevent millions of illegals invading America and destroying her civilization and standard of living in defiance of international law and the domestic law of both Mexico and the USA.
These illegals are coming for freeness from the American taxpayer, not freedom. The raison d’etre of the Berlin Wall is the opposite of the raison d’etre of the American fence and the two cannot be equated or compared.
Yours faithfully,
P. Bhagwandas
