IMMIGRATION
Hard numbers show
need to secure border
While amusing, lawyer Arturo Corso’s contention is false that “for most Mexican immigrants, there is no legal way” to enter the United States (“Embrace Mexicans,” Opinion, April 2). As usual, the open borders agenda is based on perpetuating fairy tales of victimhood.
The truth, according to the latest figures available from the Department of Homeland Security, is that Mexico sends us the most legal immigrants each year, with nearly twice as many job seekers as nation No. 2. The 2012 DHS immigration flow figures show that Mexico sent us 146,631 legal immigrants. Nation No. 2 is communist China, with 81,784 immigrants.
With 20 million to 25 million Americans — including past immigrants — in unemployment lines, facing stagnant wages and a shrinking middle class, immigration sanity would be to reduce the flow of immigration and actually enforce the laws Congress has already passed. A good “metric”: Striving to protect our own borders, workers, and benefits and services as enthusiastically and efficiently as does … Mexico.
D.A. KING, PRESIDENT, DUSTIN INMAN SOCIETY
SECURITY LEAKS
Enabler of espionage
doesn’t deserve award
It’s disgusting that my alma mater, the University of Georgia, is presenting a “journalistic courage” medal to anti-American propagandist Glenn Greenwald, who received and published stolen national security documents from the traitor Edward Snowden (“Journalist involved in Edward Snowden leaks to be awarded UGA journalism honor,” AJC.com, April 1). Enabling espionage is not journalism.
How ethical is it to publish classified documents from a thief who now receives sanctuary in Russia? The leaks Greenwald published are labeled by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence chairman as “placing America’s military … in greater danger around the world.” Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., says “we have begun to see terrorists changing their methods” because of Greenwald’s reporting, “and the harm to our country … will only continue.”
Greenwald, now in Brazil, fears being charged with espionage as a Snowden accomplice if he returns. The Espionage Act prohibits the publication of communications intelligence — and there’s no loophole for self-proclaimed journalists. Obviously, undermining our national security doesn’t mean anything to the UGA student award panel and its liberal advisers.
PHIL KENT, SANDY SPRINGS
EQUAL RIGHTS
Discrimination based
on hatred is no virtue
After reading M. Gregg Fager’s opinion column (“The confusion over discrimination,” Opinion, April 4), I couldn’t help but think that he’s the one who is confused. To recommend that our courts “virtuously discriminate” to keep marriage confined to heterosexual unions, as Mr. Fager suggests, is not about being virtuous at all. Rather, it’s an argument to condone discrimination based on hate and fear – the same argument, in fact, used to keep African Americans in slavery (and, later, segregation laws intact) and women from voting.
Just as Fager has chosen to label gay and lesbian couples who seek to legalize their commitments as engaging in “misconduct” (which the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines as legally or morally wrong), we only need to look at history – and today – to see that abolitionists, racial equality activists, and feminists were and still are given the same label. Discrimination based on hate and fear can never be virtuous.
REV. TERRY DAVIS, ATLANTA
