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Letters,
Immigration

May 11, 2010

'We are a Nation of Immigrants'

Dehumanizing immigrants and questioning their patriotism does nothing to further the debate.

Eric B. Kingsley

Partner, Kingsley & Kingsley APC

Labor & Employment

16133 Ventura Blvd #1200
Encino , CA 91436

Phone: (818) 990-8300

Fax: (818) 990-2903

Email: eric@kingsleylawyers.com

Loyola Law School; Los Angeles CA

Eric is the former board chair of the Anti-Defamation League's Los Angeles Region.

I was saddened and disappointed to see immigrant bashing in a letter to the editor by Donald Wager entitled, "Failure to Enforce Federal Law Root of Immigration Problem (May, 4)." I was in Washington D.C. earlier this week, and people on all sides of the debate agreed that the federal government has delayed for too long and that comprehensive immigration reform is required to deal with the serious problems in this country, many of which were created by the delay in passing legislati...

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