To the Sentinel:
An editorial in the Sentinel advocates ignoring the rules of law and common decency.
In the Jan. 7 piece, the editors applaud “The proposed law (that) would end a program that gave local law enforcement agencies the authority to enforce federal immigration laws.”
Earlier in the editorial a provision of the proposed law is said to “regularize the status of an estimated 12 million people in this country illegally and restore due process protections for immigrants”.
To begin with, their status is “regularized.” They are guilty of having illegally entered or stayed in the country. They are criminals.
In the second place, immigrants do have protection of due process, and so do those who are here illegally. Due process should result in the capture, and deportation of those who are breaking the law by remaining here. Illegal entry into many countries, including the home of many of those in question, is a capital offense. It is not, here. The other provisions setting up procedures for admission standards already exist in current law, which has served us well for the first 200 years. The current problems started only after it was ignored for too long.
The editorial looks to me like either anarchy or hypocrisy. Where are we as either a nation or a church without rules and regulations?

Mark Balcom
Cedar Hills