April 4 on the Pacific Coast Highway, the lives of director Bob Clark and his son were taken by a drunk driver. I, for one, remember Clark’s work on the holiday classic, "A Christmas Story."

The driver, Hector Velazquez-Nava, was drunk. He is also an illegal alien with no driver’s license. On the other side of the country, the debate about another illegal alien and drunk driver killing two teenage girls in Virginia triggered a firestorm interview between Geraldo Rivera and Bill O'Reilly.

The underlying issue is that too many politicians and political activists sugarcoat the law, that being in the country illegally is a federal crime. Just maybe, if the current immigration laws were upheld, these two girls and this director of a holiday classic and his son would be here today.

— Walter Bogaardt, Oxnard