Immigrant Sponsor Rules

* Re “Immigrants’ Sponsors Face Tough Rules,” Nov. 12.

Maria Corpus, 37, a legal U.S. resident from Mexico, receives $948 a month in taxpayer-paid welfare support. This charity goes toward supporting her five children, but under new laws she complains that she won’t be able to afford to sponsor the entry to the United States of her sickly 60-year-old husband, Teodoro Elenes!

Does compassion force us to invite her husband into this country where, among his first stops, would probably be Medicaid and Medi-Cal, and she’s only 37? Can readers visualize, as I do, the possibility of several additional Corpus / Elenes children burdening the welfare roles? It’s a tough call. Where do we draw the line?

MARIA DENKER

Studio City