We should get tougher on lawbreakers, including illegal immigrants

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4:46 PM Friday, May 21, 2010

People everywhere should have the right to leave their country to go to a country that accepts them. But human rights agendas do not provide the unconditional right to break the laws of a sovereign country.

America can get illegal immigration under control only if the will to do so exists. Only until Americans force their leaders to address the problem will levels be significantly reduced.

Addressing the problem means illegal aliens shouldn’t be rewarded, but if they refuse to return home voluntarily, they should be humanely deported.

There are too many “bleeding hearts” out there who want to feel sorry for illegal immigrants because they’re “better off in the United States.”

We as Americans have become far too relaxed in our standards and ways of dealing with lawbreakers in general.

C. Richard Bradley

Trotwood

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