Illegal immigrants not entitled to rights
Joel Sati (“DACA pits ‘good immigrants’ against millions of others,” Opinion, Sept. 10) makes a good point and a reasonable argument in declaring the 800,000 young people protected by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals aren’t any better than the remaining 12 million illegal immigrants here. They are all human and, therefore, deserve similar treatment. But his argument then goes off the rails as he concludes all these immigrants have been “illegalized,” a term invented to negate personal responsibility and instead deride the laws preventing illegal immigrants jumping the line in front of those playing by the rules. Sati believes illegal immigrants’ humanness alone entitles them to the rights and privileges this country’s citizens enjoy. This Berkeley Law Ph.D. student thereby demonstrates the disturbing perspective that when a country’s laws attempt to protect citizens through orderly immigration rather than by automatically benefiting such laws’ breakers: the laws be damned, give us what we want.
GREGORY MARSHALL, MARIETTA
People cherry-pick scientific truths
People can be very conveniently selective about their belief in science. We just had a total eclipse of the sun, and science had predicted to the minute when we could see it at various places. And most accepted that without question as they sat there looking up.
Spaceship Cassini has now flown billions of miles in space for over 20 years, carefully exploring Saturn, its moons and more. And it sent back millions of pictures. Yet, many claim they do not believe in global warming or that humans are involved, contradicting more than 95 percent of science.
For political and selfish business reasons, the uninformed in the public are lied to and too-often convinced. How convenient.
BOB HILTON, ATLANTA
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