Soccer Players

* Agustin Gurza’s April 25 column characterizes the two Santa Ana soccer players as fallen stars. He admits they entered the country illegally but wonders why they can’t just be left to make a contribution to society. Due to their illegal status, the L.A. Galaxy won’t sign them and they have returned “home” to Tustin and Santa Ana College.

Many of us would have different questions than Gurza. The big question is, now that these lawbreakers have been exposed, why haven’t they been deported to their own country and their real home, Mexico? How much money has been spent by the taxpayers on the many years of education these two men have taken in the U.S.? Why can’t they put their apparently superior soccer talents to work for a professional team in their own country of Mexico? If they adhere to the proper immigration processes and get permission to play in the U.S., no problem.

But their case is different; they are illegal immigrants. If they are rewarded with anything other than deportation, it will only encourage more illegal immigration, which is tearing at the fabric of society in Southern California.

DAVID R. GILLESPIE

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