On Immigration: Walls or Bridges?

“Your Oct. 22 editorial “Ain’t That America” correctly describes the increasingly racial and socioeconomic dimensions that are shaping the illegal immigration debate and people’s perceptions. Despite our proud identity as a nation defined by immigrants and the Statue of Liberty, America remains vulnerable to the most destructive of human tendencies, fear of the unknown, which often escalates into hatred.

Mainstream America was largely unfamiliar with Hispanic culture until recent years. As the foreign presence, language and customs swept across the country seemingly overnight, the confusion is excusable. What is inexcusable is the incendiary rhetoric by a vocal and political minority that is perpetuating this widespread fear by denouncing immigration as an illegal invasion with designs to usurp American culture, traditions and even the English language.”*

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