You can sneak across the border, work under the table and pay no taxes; send half your money back to your home country, draining our economy; send your children to public schools; get free medical treatment; never have to learn to speak English; give birth to a child who is automatically a citizen and it’s not really illegal because there are too many of you and it would create a hardship for you. (Yes, I lived for several years in Southern California.)

Or you can live on a reservation, where your ancestors lived for years in poverty because our ancestors forced it on you, yet when you find a way to improve your economy and lift your family’s lifestyle, it becomes illegal unless you start sharing some of that cash with our politicians? (Yes, I grew up here and traveled once a month through the reservation to visit family in Pennsylvania, and regularly saw the conditions existing there in the ’50s and ’60s.)

Blasdell