Dear Sir:

This is my first time writing to a newspaper. However, I feel I must comment on the immigration matter that is becoming very hot. I am glad I am not a politician having to vote on this thing because there are two strong arguments here.

On the one hand, it is not fair to those who struggled to become legal here, to have to step back and make way for those who came here illegally. Although it sounds selfish regardless of what is said they are taking away benefits from legal residents.

But on the other hand, as you have said many of these people came here to find hope, to find ways of surviving poverty and bad conditions in their own countries. This makes it sort of inhumane to send them back home

Why the flip-flop?

Dear Sir,

We need a new Broward County school board. I am sure many people will agree with me. First this board could not make up its mind about the new start date for schools in August despite the preference for parents for a later start. They should be listening to the parents whom they represent.

Now, we see where the board has approved female students wearing flip-flops sandals to school. How can this be? What are they trying to do, crate a sloppy set of young women? It is so disgusting to see well-dressed young women in these cheap looking sandals. It just as like seeing young men dressed in suits wearing sneakers.

Three years ago on March 19, 2003 the United States launched a preemptive war on Iraq. Our president tried to assure us the U.S. was obligated to invade Iraq because intelligence indicated that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and Iraq had ties to international terrorism. Obviously, more ties than Afghanistan, where the master terrorist Osama Bin Laden was purported to be in hiding.                             

We were also assured that the war would be brief. Hussein’s government would be overthrown, Hussein captured or killed, and democracy would reign in Iraq. All this aljost happened. By April 9, 2003 the Iraq government had indeed been overthrown, culminating in the well publicized toppling of Saddam’s statue in Baghdad. Then on May 1 President Bush announced to the world, “mission accomplished” and that major combat had ended. But all that proved to be to be very premature.

Although Saddam was captured in December 2003, the mission is far from accomplished. No weapons of mass destruction has ever been found; Iraq is far from being a democracy; the country is on the verge of a raging civil war, and over 2,300 American soldiers and well over 30,000 Iraqis have been killed.

It is so ironic. It was illegal immigrants who came to the America in the Mayflower from England over two hundred years ago. History never recorded them having visas or passports. This group of ex-prisoners came, captured lands, liquidated the Native Americans, and thus began America.

Today, there is an estimated 11 to 12 million illegal immigrants residing in this country. Today’s illegal immigrants are here – whether they came by plane, boat or simply walked across the border – for one solitary reason, to seek a better life for themselves and their families.

jost of them, in order to realize their objectives, have been willing to work for extremely low wages, and often, in very poor working conditions, without benefits. But work they do. They do work that legal Americans would never think of doing at sub-minimum wages. But work they do, and constitute a very important economic system – “cheap labor.”

The mystery behind the recent burning of nine Baptist churches in rural Alabama was solved when three white college students from the prosperous suburbs of Birmingham confessed to the act.

The students who were arrested said that the fires were the result of a prank that spun out of control while they were out deer hunting. Two of the students were arrested on the campus of Birmingham Southern College where they attended, and the other was a student at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Police were led to the students by tire tracks at several of the burned churches, Investigation has revealed that the tracks where from the tires of a Toyota 4Runner owned by one of the suspects mother.

The burnt churches affected both white and black worshippers. Four of the nine churches had predominantly white, while the other five had black congregations. With the arrests the congregation of several other Baptist churches in the sate have been able to rest easier.