Education for Undocumented

* Re “Don’t Bend on Education for Undocumented,” by Ben J. Seeley, Column Right, Sept. 10:

Kudos to Seeley for pointing out Congress’ latest legislative thrombosis concerning educating K-12 illegal immigrant children. Why indeed should we educate a segment of young foreigners who aren’t eligible for driver’s licenses or employment unless they produce fraudulent documents? And even if they find jobs, what future awaits them except to become part of a growing underclass of unskilled workers. High-tech California simply can’t absorb 2 million-plus unskilled illegal immigrants.

In the final analysis, no society can indefinitely allow a relentless flood of illegal immigrants from all over the world, against its collective will, to violate its borders, overwhelm its infrastructures and social systems, make employment for its own uneducated and poor citizens so very difficult to obtain and degrade its way of life as is happening here in California.

MICHAEL A. SCOTT

Glendora

* As per usual, we are addressing this abomination of illegal immigration at the edges!

The problem is not here, it is not at the border, it is in Mexico City with the oligarchs who have run that country as their own “private hacienda.”

Their control has stunted what would have been a normal economic development that would have stopped illegal immigration at its very source.

So their answer to the poverty-stricken poor has always been, if you can’t make a living here, go “north”! What a great social safety valve!

Now with our never-ending appetite for drugs that is making Mexico ungovernable even for the oligarchs, American and foreign investment may dry up, making illegal immigration an avalanche.

NAFTA is 50 years late; let’s pray that it has a more immediate effect on the exodus out of Mexico.

PETER T. LIMON

San Clemente