Re: Joe Howry’s May 29 essay, “Wrong spin on hospitals”:

Regardless of the accuracy of Madeline Cosman’s claims in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, the effects of illegal immigration on our neighborhoods, our schools and our social services, and the dramatic increase in racial tension, is easy for those of us who live in communities affected by it to see.

We don’t need statistics promoted by either liberals or conservatives to see the effects of our elected officials’ failure to enforce our laws and their  inability to keep their word after the last amnesty in 1986.
Why must “we improve the conditions in the countries where illegal immigrants are coming from” when they refuse to help themselves?

How much more in U.S. foreign aid do we need to send to Mexico (over the $31 billion in 2004 and a promised $30 billion in 2005) to encourage them to take responsibility for creating a society that doesn’t depend on another country’s prosperity to give their unskilled, illiterate workforce hope for their future?

Why do the majority of us have to abide by the law, while illegal aliens, the majority of whom happen to be Mexican, aren’t expected to?

Those aren’t “racist” statements, but honest questions.

Does Mr. Howry have any answers?

— Judy McLaughlin, Simi Valley