Poverty Factor in Immigration

Just a minute while I get out my old violin and weep over Father Boyle’s incredibly insensitive piece. Boyle’s column fails to take into account the fact that we are not taking care of our own homeless and unemployed in order to try to take care of those who illegally enter our country, learning our welfare system and yelling for their “rights.” What rights?

Everyone, it seems, wants to live in the U.S. Does that mean we have to allow that or don’t we have any say? Why isn’t the Immigration Reform Act being enforced? Because of people like Boyle who think they have a higher calling than the laws of our country.

ELAINE STANSFIELD

Los Angeles