Letters to the editor
Posted on September 6, 2007

Immigrants need love, too

Anna Young’s opinion editorial in last week’s Breeze shamefully asserts that good old American hospitality shouldn’t be extended to neighbors beyond our southern border. What happened to the Christian value of loving your neighbor more than yourself? It seems to me that if our nation is able to send $225 million of aid to the Sudan and $440 billion to send troops to Iraq to help them establish a stable government and police force, we have a responsibility to discover means of allowing and assisting job-seeking immigrants within our borders, and capability to assist our neighboring nations.

While not condoning illegal immigration, the fact is most illegal immigrants today are trying to escape the extreme economic hardship and violence of their own nation.  Would you have us turn our backs to our neighbors? If our neighbors, why not our own?

Lisa Pelegrin
senior communications major