OPINION:
Jack Webb didn’t quite get it right in “Arizona law racially profiles for a reason” (Letters, Wednesday) when he wrote, “The problem at issue is people illegally crossing the southern border with Mexico - and it so happens that virtually 100 percent of the people doing so are Hispanic.”
An even greater threat to U.S. security than illegal Hispanic immigrants is the number of immigrants from terror-sponsoring countries who are crossing our borders. Hundreds of such people are detained by the U.S. Border Patrol; however, our government is catching only one out of 10 people crossing the border. Those immigrants include Hezebollah terrorists and others from Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen. Evidence suggests that Mexican drug cartels may be aiding these illegals.
Channel 2 News Atlanta recently investigated this security threat, but the major news media seem to have ignored it. I’m sure it didn’t come up in recent discussions between President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. Arizona Republican Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth, who is challenging Republican Sen. John McCain in his re-election bid, says he has read congressional reports about this security threat, and the American public is being kept in the dark about it.
Arizona legislators are right; this is one more confirmation that the federal government is not doing its job.
MICHAEL D. BENGE
Falls Church, Va.
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