Roundups of Aliens in Orange

Regarding the article “Wives Agonize After Husbands Are Seized” (March 2):

I am sorry, Maria Gomez, that your husband, Angel, was taken into custody by the police last Tuesday and sent over the U. S.-Mexico border. And you didn’t even know what had happened to him.

Maria, are you asking, “Was his crime so bad, driving without proper identification in an old truck?”

Maria, do you wonder, “Why didn’t they at least bring my husband home to me first?”

I often see the illegal and legal aliens lined up on Chapman Avenue in Orange early in the morning. Patiently they wait and wait for some contractor to pick them up for work, work they will do for far less money than most Americans.

I can understand why we more prosperous Americans, with finer homes and more money, do not wish to look at this poverty.

We Americans say that this could never happen to us. But deep in our hearts we know that being born in this country has given us protection and access to better fortunes.

And I am troubled that all I can say is, “I am sorry, Maria Gomez.”

BARBARA CLARK

Orange