The San Jose Mercury News has actually used the term "illegal immigrant" in a front page headline: miracles can still happen, even in the land o' P. C.

The Editor

The San Jose Mercury News

San Jose, CA

To the Editor:

A tip of the old fedora to your front page headline writers for having the courage to combine the words "illegal" and "immigrants" to form the phase, "illegal immigrants" in reference to the scandalous attempt of the Legislature Democrats and the recently recalled Governor Davis to offer California drivers licenses to those who enter our country in violation of federal immigration laws. Perhaps this more honest wording in the Mercury News reflects a new appreciation of social and economic reality.

I had to chuckle last night, when on a local television news interview, one illegal immigrant truck driver said, "I only want to follow the law." Hmm, he was quite selective about which laws he would be bothered to "follow." Our first law that he should follow is the law of our border. It simply says, "do not enter without a permit or a visa." In high school, we called this offensive antisocial activity as "cutting in line" or being a "line leech."

Perhaps the citizens of people-exporting nations such as Mexico, China and India could bother to use a little more birth control so that they wouldn't have to keep flooding their nations and our nation with their excess population. Aren't 6,000,000,000 people festering on this earth enough already?

Yours truly,

James K. Sayre

2 December 2003