In 1970, after splitting up with two friends in San Miguel D’Allende, I discovered that they had accidentally taken my visa with them and I was, therefore, an illegal alien in Mexico. Under the protection of the American embassy, I got a new visa.

Mexican officials explained that, had I been caught while undocumented, I would have had to spend two years in a Mexican prison, and my family in the United States would have had to pay for my food as well — or I didn’t eat!

That Mexican policy remains in effect today, with illegal immigration a felony, punishable by up to two years in prison. Immigrants who are deported and attempt to re-enter can be sentenced to six-year terms. Mexicans who help illegals are considered criminals.

El Presidente Felipe Calderon has the nerve to insist that Arizona’s comparatively mild law is “racist?” New World Order elitists have no respect for our intelligence whatsoever.

How long shall Americans not defend the Constitution? The “La Raza” invaders think we stole the Southwest. Instead of agreeing, why don’t our leaders assert the 1848 treaty of Guadaloupe-Hidalgo where the USA paid $15 million to Mexico to buy California, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado?

We need the same kind of “racism” that Mexico has. All illegals should pay for their own food in U.S. prisons for two years. No more sympathy for the “deportees.”

Robert Bruce Acheson, Dixfield