I saw a letter from (ex-)reader Matt Slaybaugh in issue #2 harshly condemning you for publishing this Chris Simcox interview.

Now, I do not know much about Simcox and the MCDC but I do know that there was absolutely nothing wrong with anything expressed by him or the author in this piece. It’s about the law!

I have been in this country since June 2000 and I came here because I was lucky to have been offered a job by an American company. However, I feel sick to my stomach every time I see all these illegal aliens claiming rights that do not correspond to them and groups advocating for them and getting them treated far better than I have as a legal alien. I sometimes think I would have been better off if I had actually gone to Key West, thrown myself into the water and then wash up ashore claiming I was a Cuban!

Now, I definitely do not support any type of aggression or discrimination against illegal aliens but I do believe that allowing illegal immigration to continue will be bad in the long run for this country. The US has a long tradition of being a country in which laws are just and are followed. This should not be an exception. Granted, illegal immigrants may not assassins, contrabandists or terrorists, but they are still breaking the law!

Bands of 'vigilantes' is not a solution. The National Guard is not a solution. A 700-mile long fence is not a solution. Deporting 10 million people is not a solution.

Illegal immigrants are in 99% of the cases poor people trying to get jobs in the US. Want to stop them from coming here? Then why not invest in Latin American countries so that those economies are better suited to give jobs to these people?

Sadly, a democrat-led government will most likely delay free-trade agreements and other similar types of efforts so I really don’t think a plausible solution is near at hand but I do want to commend you for having published this article.