Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

To the Editor:

“Immigration Hardball” (editorial, Nov. 15) argues for a way for “illegal immigrants to get right with the law.”

Can we not question the wisdom of promoting amnesty and continued mass immigration in the face of millions of unemployed and underemployed Americans?

Can we not cheer at the possibility of a sustainable energy future if we curtail continued population growth from immigration?

Or are we condemned to actively promote the overpopulation of the United States by countries that are unwilling to curtail their growth and that refuse to provide for their own?

Tim Aaronson
El Cerrito, Calif., Nov. 15, 2010

Note from KBJ: The letter writer is a racist, a bigot, a restrictionist, a nativist, and a xenophobe. Oh, wait. For a moment there I thought I was an editorial writer for the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal.