Editor:

This letter is concerning Paula Huff's column of March 22.

Ms. Huff, your comparison of the Canadian and Mexican border problems is laughable. I don't see hundreds of thousands of Canadians living in the United States illegally. I don't see a 28 percent increase in tuberculosis (as was the case in Arizona last year), as well as other serious health concerns, in the Canadian border states. I don't see our justice and prison system overloaded because of tens of thousands of Canadians committing crimes on our side of the border.

Your paranoia about racism as it relates to immigration (no doubt fostered by the University of Arizona's diversity cottage industry) has caused you to come to some ridiculous conclusions. You ask: Why do we allow everyone except the Mexicans into the United States? Paula, there is hardly a shortage of Mexicans in the United States. It is becoming a burden upon all citizens to absorb these escalating numbers of immigrants from all countries. That's what the immigration question is all about.

Your fashionably liberal conclusions are so superficial and vacant that they do serve one useful purpose € any thinking person will dismiss your argument in the time it takes our university president to approve a new diversity program. By the way, Japan hardly qualified as a Third World country during World War II. Just ask some of our Pacific Theater vets.

Martin G. Schrick

agriculture senior

Martin G. Schrick
agriculture senior