No sympathy for deported aliens

To the editor:

In response to the Sunday article “Dreamers discouraged,” by Associated Press writer Traci Carl: Are we supposed to feel sorry for people who are having a harder time getting back into the United States by means of illegal entry?

The writer said “Fewer Mexicans are sending home cash remittances — Mexico’s biggest source of foreign income after oil.”

According to immigrationcounters.com, almost $36 billion U.S. dollars have been wired to Mexico since 2006; almost $300 billion has been wired to Latin America since 2001; the cost of social services for illegal aliens since 1996 has been $397 billion, and skilled jobs taken by illegal immigrants now total more than 10 million.

Our country and its legal citizens have been burdened beyond all common sense, and we are at the end of our patience. We can no longer close our eyes and hope it will all go away. Our laws must be enforced, including strict punishment for employers who have broken the law by hiring illegal immigrants.

TINA KAMINSKY

HENDERSON

Bush no FDR

To the editor:

If the purpose of an editorial is to shock and disgust, then mission accomplished with Tuesday’s “The Rove legacy.” Not because you supported Mr. Rove and the evasive band of outlaws known as the Bush administration. Anyone who reads this newspaper knows that the editorial page staff of the Review-Journal was seen near Bush’s polyps in his recent colonoscopy.

No, the shock came in the last paragraph, where you tried to casually compare this embarrassment of a president with Franklin D. Roosevelt by mentioning the progress made in FDR’s last 18 months in office. Of course, if you compared George W. Bush to a president he has more in common with, you would have probably wept along with the rest of the country.

Example: In the last 18 months of his administration, inept James Buchanan did nothing to halt the destruction of the nation that led to the Civil War. In the last 18 months of his administration, clueless Ulysses S. Grant allowed corrupt corporate and political interests to rape this country, leaving damage that took nearly a half-century to fix. And in the last 18 months of his administration, crooked Richard Nixon lied, cheated, and generally destroyed the faith of the American people as he tried to protect his own hide and his close circle of friends.

Now you’ve got the right comparison.

RANDALL BUIE

HENDERSON

Frustrated foaming

To the editor:

Reading the Tuesday letter “Planning Rove’s retirement party,” by Larry Burgess, brought back a memory from my newspaper delivery days as a kid.

There was this vicious dog on my route that the owner kept tethered on a chain. Each time I would ride my bicycle by this house, this dog would come at me with his teeth bared and foam spewing from his mouth. He would run until the chain jerked him back to reality.

I am reminded of this by the pouting left-wing sore losers such as Mr. Burgess, who continue to mope over the 2000 and 2004 election results — two elections in which the brilliant strategist Karl Rove outsmarted and out-snookered the Democrats, two elections won by George W. Bush.

More foam spewed when Mr. Rove failed to fall for the entrapment during the Valerie Plame/CIA leak non-crime debacle. I say non-crime because no crime had been committed; the independent counsel already knew who leaked her supposedly covert status (it was Richard Armitage). It was simply an entrapment ploy to get the president, Vice President Dick Cheney or Mr. Rove.

The left just can’t accept the fact that he has outsmarted them at every turn. Good luck in civilian life, Mr. Rove. We’re going to miss you.

WARREN WILLIS

LAS VEGAS

Executive privilege

To the editor:

Imagine the chaos that would result if “executive privilege” actually operated in the manner described by Larry Burgess in his Tuesday letter to the editor.

It doesn’t. No one would be willing to serve the president. The checks and balances afforded by the Constitution would be weakened.

On both sides of the aisle, sincere, patriotic Americans serve at the pleasure of the president, but once their service is complete, that service — correspondence, notes, actions — all continue to be protected by this privilege (at least in theory), which attaches to the executive branch, not to any private individual.

It is sad, slouching toward catastrophic, that we use freedom of speech to attack the efforts of those who endeavor to serve our country, usually at great personal expense to themselves and their families.

While we busy ourselves with political and personal attacks, we ignore the real perils which weaken our country day by day: the deterioration of values, morality, culture, self-determination, liberty, human worth.

We fail to keep our eye on the ball, and our enemies takes note.

JOE PANTOZZI

LAS VEGAS