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p>Shawn, take care, and keep up the excellent work. br> -- Bill Gardner /p>

Huh! "Many very good people all over the world, especially in Latin America, are following all the rules yet still waiting in lines for years trying to come to America legally. That's just ridiculous. It's not right and needs to be fixed."

Why is it ridiculous, why is it wrong, and why does a law, passed by the Congress -- the people elected by the American people to represent them, and signed into law by the President--also elected by the American people -- need to be "fixed"? Because Mr. Crespo doesn't like it? He always has the option to go back to Cuba if he doesn't like it here. Nobody will stand in his way, unlike in Cuba.

p>Why you can't ask such fundamental question invalidates your, or Mr. Macomber's, claim to be a journalist. Propaganda artist, yes. Sickening. br> -- Carroll Melton br> Arlington, Virginia /p> p> Shawn Macomber replies; br> Immigration policy is not the only law passed by our representatives that should be fixed or, better yet, completely scrapped. What would writers for this magazine do to keep busy if every legislative declaration from Capitol Hill was considered so sacrosanct, beyond questioning? And is encouraging every person who disagrees philosophically or morally with a law passed by Congress to accept it or go to Cuba? (Never mind the poor taste and ill-judgment of telling a man like Paul Crespo who served 12 years in the U.S. Marines to go stew in Fidel's Hell because he might disagree with you!) I'm assuming there might be another option or two outside of extradition to communist countries and keeping our mouths shut, but, then again, what do I know? I'm just the traitor eagerly shilling for the "browning of America" as I await my "day of reckoning." Seriously, this kind of rhetoric could never demean anyone as much as the people br> who choose to employ it.

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