Response to New Immigration Law

Re “Mexico Rages Over U.S. Immigration Law,” April 12:

U.S. citizens are the ones who should be raging. We’re the ones losing $4 billion every year from our economy. We’re the ones paying more billions for additional Border Patrol, jails, emergency health care, uninsured motorists, crime and congestion. Why doesn’t the Mexican Assembly do something about Mexico’s problems--low wages and opportunities in Mexico aren’t the fault of the U.S.

The Times unfortunately sees it as an issue about “the rights, dignity and safety of the Mexican migrant community in the United States”--a view which belongs on the editorial page, not in a news column. The issue is our rights, dignity and safety, especially our right to determine who and how many people we allow to enter the country.

Illegal entrants should be photographed, fingerprinted and then expelled. A return illegal visit should then draw a spell in jail, along with losing any right to legally immigrate.

ROBERT D. McCONNELL

Manhattan Beach

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I’m tired of hearing Mexico whine about the United States’ new immigration policies. Instead of whining, the Mexican government needs to create jobs and care for its own people. It’s not the United States’ responsibility to solve Mexico’s woes. I’m glad that the U.S. is finally making tougher laws to lessen illegal immigration.

JANIS WHITTINGTON

Laguna Hills