I can't believe that a major metropolitan paper like the LA  Times would publish drivel like your distortion-laden column I had  the misfortune to read today. The citizens of Arizona passed a law  that makes it necessary to prove you are in their state LEGALLY.  They are tired of paying TWO BILLION taxpayer dollars a year in  medical and  educational  benefits to people in their state  ILLEGALLY. They are  tired of the Mexican drug traffickers,  kidnappings (389 last year), traffic accidents, and crime caused by  ILLEGAL immigrants in their state. They are tired of citizens of a  foreign country overcrowding and  bankrupting their emergency rooms  and schools. They have the ABSOLUTE RIGHT to defend their state when  the federal government fails to do so so just like I have the right  to put three hollow-points in the chest of the guy who's trying to  kick in my front door when the cops don't show up.

It has been the law in this country since 1940 that foreign  nationals be able to produce proof that they are here LEGALLY by way  of visa, green card, etc. This "Produce your papers" and the  allusions to Nazi  Germany is a bunch of dishonest claptrap. If you  took time to read the Arizona law (assuming you can read English)  you would see that police officers may only inquire as to an  individual's immigration status in  the course of a "legal  contact".  The problem with you and Mexicans like you is the fact  that you have this sense of entitlement that you can enter OUR  COUNTRY as you please. You come from a culture and a country with no  respect for the law or the rule of law. The United States is a  sovereign nation with the ABSOLUTE RIGHT to decide who does and does  not enter our country.

What amuses me the most is the fact that if our illegal  immigration problem was due to the influx of SWEDES, you wouldn't  have written ONE WORD in the defense of their rights? It is only  because they are Hispanics like you that you leap to their defense.  I find it ironic that you are truer to your Hispanic roots than you  are to your American citizenship, especially since the Hispanic  culture is a broke-dick, busted-ass, ignorant-ass, uneducated, going- nowhere culture and has been for the last 500 years, and in all  likelihood, will be for the NEXT 500 years.

When I moved to California in 1969, Los Angeles was a clean  prosperous city. Now it's broke under the weight of massive  entitlements. Now we need concertina wire to protect our freeway  signs from Hispano-moron graffiti "artists'. What an enlightened  culture you come from that believes that vandalizing another's  property is an art form.  Over 400 California families have lost  loved ones to ILLEGAL immigrant  murderers. 40% of the criminals  incarcerated in our prisons at CALIFORNIA TAXPAYER EXPENSE, are  ILLEGAL immigrants. Thank you so much for our overcrowded ERs,  schools and freeways.  Thanks also for the gangs and the drive-by  shootings. In all fairness though, I like the tacos.

If I want to enter Mexico, France, England, Germany or ANY  country on this earth, I need to produce a passport to do so. It's  THEIR COUNTRY and I need to ask permission to do so. HOW DARE you  and your brethren think that they have some God-given right to flout  our laws and come into our country of their own accord? You and  people like you are the textbook example of why the fewer Mexicans  we have in our country, the better our country will be. We manage to  produce a steady supply of  home-grown idiots on our own, thank very  much,  good luck with your boycotts and our protests. Just remember  amigo, 70% of the people in Arizona and 65% of Americans LOVE this  law. Every time you put together thousands of protesters, you piss  off MILLIONS of people like me.

Hasta la vista, baby

Tom Edwards