Boston Globe letters, March 17, 2018

Note, the Globe has a policy on use of the legal and accurate term “illegal alien,” which is what I wrote in my letter.

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Globe editor,

Your story about Lilian Calderon Jimenez (“Detained and bewildered,” Page A1, March 12) hit all the usual notes on the evils of borders and of enforcement of American immigration laws. But thank you for explaining that this victim of borders was already under a final order of deportation. And that her case was 15 years old.

After reading formulated stories like this for years, I have grown weary of the repetition and clear message they are intended to send. Immigrant living here illegally: victim. Immigration enforcement: oppression.

It seems most readers do not realize that the United States must either enforce its immigration laws or admit that the legal immigrants who join the American family according to our laws are fools and that the rule of law upon which our republic was founded is a thing of the past.

We look forward to reading about the American dream of the 1 million legal immigrants we admit each year and their expectation of equal protection under the law.

D.A. King

President

The Dustin Inman Society

Marietta, Ga.

The Dustin Inman Society is a nonprofit organization that advocates for enforcement of our immigration laws. Here