Warning

I call your attention to King Features' columnist Maria Elena Salinas, a former info-babe (yes, she's attractive) for Telemundo or Univision (I'm too lazy to research which), who is an outrageous apologist for illegal aliens. A couple of weeks ago, she intruded into my world when she referred to the illegals who were arrested at an Iowa meat-processing plant as "victims." Criminals are not victims, except, in this case, possibly, victims of the governments of their countries of origin, who have failed to provide them with the appropriate economic opportunities.

Yesterday, while discussing the present economic downturn, she quoted a study which said, "Some 52 percent of working-age Latinos in the United States are immigrants." What does that mean? Are these legal or illegal immigrants, or a mixture of the two? As far as that goes, aren't we all immigrants, first or second generation? In addition, when the ice that covered North America as far south as the Grand Canyon receded, who became the "indigenous people?" Wouldn't that have been Indians from the south, Scandinavians from the east, and those who crossed over the land bridge from Asia? All immigrants?

Then again, Salinas raised my hackles with the statement, "[The immigrants'] dire [financial] situation is also reflected in the money they send back home to their families." People who emigrate to the United States in the proper, legal fashion bring their families with them, and make our country their new home. People who have made no commitment, and only desire to extract money from our country purely for the benefit of others in other countries are not those whom our immigration policy intends to attract.