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Dear Feshang,

I have never heard of immigrants breaking into someone's house and trying to claim their food or propery except during revolutions and before the rule of law is reestablished.

Let us be more compassionate to the immigrants even the illegal ones who are mostly trying to put in a day of hard work to support themselves and their families. They are called illegal, but they are brought in by employers who cannot fill their vacancy with ordinary American citizens who consider those jobs menial and degrading. Simply put, if not for them we will have to pay much more to put food on our tables and a variety of services they render. The most these innocent people use is our education and health services for their kids all of which is a drop in a bucket as compared with billions of taxpayers' mony wasted by many of our politicians. They can be stopped from coming in very easily, but our dire need for them and the law of supply and demand prevents that.

Regarding Anonymous's remark about Lou Dobbs. Lou's being married to a Mexican is irrelevent. How do we know Lou's wife does not believe in the same things he does, or of what persuasion she is. There are a lot of political marriages. John McCain has adopted one or two kids from other countries and yet he sings Bomb Iran...before getting out of the present Iraqi quagmire with no end in his war and hate mongering in sight. Lou's biggest problem is that he constantly cries wolf over outsourcing of the American jobs perhpas to drum up support for provincial thinker who do not seem to understand that the only way to keep the American jobs at home is to have a highly trained work force that competes in global market. He and the likes of him will never utter a word to Americans about belt-tightening and trying to live on less and most probably be happier. I should say that I admire Cafferty and his file that reflects the view of millions of Americans so well.

While at the subject of immigrants I like to point out that practically all immigrants are driven out of their homelands as a result of our misguided foreign policies and one-sided hegemonic ambition with no regard for loss of lives, properties of both Americans and other counties. It is up to our esteemed lawyer writer, Mr. Irani to tell us whether these actions are legal on local and global levels. I have read about many cases when Americans have sued and collected a lot of money from the assets of countries within whose borders American lives and properties ihave been destroyed. So the big question is how we can get away with uprooting the people from their own homelands and treat them as second class citizens in America? What does human rights say about this?

khody

Thank You.

To be compassionate is a human thing to do. We all need to strive to be sympathetic and understanding, to be kind to the immigrants to this country.    We all also need to uphold the laws of this country. As the word clearly implies, an illegal immigrant has done something illegal! As a lawyer you should be the first person to appreciate the consequences of such an action.   If someone comes to your house without your permission because he has nowhere else to sleep, bathe, and he has no money to buy food , so he uses your food to sustain himself, would you be compassionate and let him stay?     If we really want to be compassionate, we should try to change the laws to make these actions legal. Protecting the guilty is not the answer.          

Feshangi

Lou Dobbs

You are not making a distinction between immigration and illegal immigrants. My friend, no country, including Iran, will and should tolorate invasion of illegals coming through her boarders. Lou Dobbs ( I am not a fan of him) is not anti-immigrant, in fact his wife is a Mexican. He is against illegals in this country. Get your facts correctly.

You are a hero!

Dear J. Irania, esq,

It is indeed an honor to have another defender of immigrants especially of your status. You are a real asset for immigrants in our litigation society in which individual voices do not echo as they once did. Supporting the immigrants in a "Nation of Immigrants" may sound like oxymoron, but it is a must so that the era of concentration camps for all foreign-born people is not repeated. In a dynamic country like America we expect things change drastically, but one tends to think certain things do not need to change unless we choose to be irrational for the fun of it. You mention the contribution of immigrants to America very well. I further believe that America would not be where it is today if not for the constant inflow of immigrants with fresh intellectual and material wealth and a strong desire for pursuit of happiness. That, to me is the secret of survival of America from total decay. The common enemy of all great empires have been complacency, over-induglence, apathy and indifference in the direction of their empire. It is unfortunate that our 'modern' public education has not only short changed our recent generations of substance, but wisdom that comes with effective education that in turn connects our present with our past history and helps us to chart our future.

Commentators like Lou Dobbs blame all of America's ills on immigrants shed aligator tears on outsourcing of jobs when our public education system has failed to produce not only technological, but even service work force. Lou Dobbs doesn't care if the Amercan businesses and even the giant Microsoft are complled to resort to froeign work force to fill their vacancies with immigrants. With firends like these America needs no enemies. They are also called "dog in amanger!" They are out of touch with realities with the dream of colonial rule that the founders of America defeated more than 200 years ago. It is time to think that we have to save America from itself rather than blaming its ills on the outside world. As Thomas Jefferson said, "An empire collapses more from withing than from without."

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khody