Illegal aliens are breaking laws and breaking taxpayers' backs

This letter is in response to Steve Chapman’s column "The fence keeping illegal aliens out actually keeps them in" (April 25).
 After reading this column, I had to admit lots of the illegal aliens from Mexico are good people and good workers as well. Nevertheless, they are illegal and are lawbreakers because illegal means prohibited by law.
 Are you suggesting, Mr. Chapman, that we ignore this law or drop it and write up a new one so illegal aliens won’t be illegal anymore?
 Are you suggesting that our government ignore this law and make a new one for this special group of lawbreakers?
 Would you also allow this new law to cover our own lawbreakers who are presently behind wall and fence? You know, if it’s effective for one group of lawbreakers, it should be for the other. No partiality, please!
 If we did this, whether for the poor in their country or ours, would that not cause anarchy?
 Mostly, I believe the illegal aliens are coming into our country for the "free" handouts. Where else in this whole world can they go to get free housing, free schooling, free medical care and food (which is becoming more scarce). Where? Mr. Chapman, tell me where!
 And who in this whole world is paying for all this "free" stuff? Our big, free-spending government, of course!
 But Mr. Chapman, where does our big, free-spending government get all this money for all these "free" handouts? Mr. Chapman, you may not know who is paying for all this, but I will tell you: the true minority in America, the working people who pay taxes without cheating.
 I consider myself among this minority and I can tell you, Mr. Chapman, we do not want any more freeloaders to support. Our backs are almost broken already.
 If I sound angry, it’s because I’m fed up with all the hogwash and idiocy going on in Washington, D.C. A
simple solution: Stop all the handouts. They will have to go home by their own choice.

Laura Fannin
Kings Mountain

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