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Article: Illegal huddled masses.(LETTERS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2006
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Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES
I would like to respond to Arturo Sarukhan's column "Against the wall" (Commentary, Monday). First, the comparison between the Berlin Wall and the U.S. border fence authorized by Congress is misleading. The Berlin Wall was meant to keep East German and other Soviet peoples from leaving their communist "paradise." The fence along the Mexican border is meant to put a stop to a tremendous invasion of this country by illegal aliens who threaten the fabrics both economic and cultural of the United States.
To praise, as this article does, these invaders as "bold and hardworking" people and to assert that they are "critical to the ...