In response to your Sept. 4 story, “States crack down
on illegal immigrants”: I care about the West. I don’t want
to walk in a forest which sports two humans for every tree, or hike
on an ocean beach that is solid human bodies — Coney Island,
for instance.
Resisting immigration seems to be the only
way we can resist being overwhelmed by our species’ success
in carrying out the religious dictate “Go forth and multiply.” Am I
a nasty redneck cave-dweller? No, I’m an old Socialist who is
so democratic that she believes other species, as well as her own,
deserve their place on this one tiny life-supporting speck in the
universe.
Lois Phillips
Hudson
Redmond, Washington
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Resist!.
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