We won’t be silent about immigrants who break laws

The Arizona Republic April 21 editorial described people who support President Trump’s effort to establish immigration law and order as “nativist.”

The implication is that people like me who support the president’s efforts are racists, maybe even bigots.

The intent is to intimidate and silence us. But we won’t be silenced, and we are not going away! O

ur immigration laws are not “living” guidelines subject to personal interruption or outright disregard.

Undocumented immigrants enter or remain in our country illegally, then commit other illegal acts such as identification fraud or worse ID theft and tax fraud.

They often drive without a license or liability insurance. Others commit even more serious crimes. They don’t respect us or our laws — they just want a piece of the prosperity our laws have created.

They fail to recognize it is respect for our laws that distinguishes the United States from the country they abandoned. The Republic’s name-calling is — to use your words — “needlessly provocative and distracting.”

There are humane solutions to this mess. Respecting existing laws while working to improve the legal immigration process is a good place to start.

— Steve Losacker, Gilbert

Misfortune has a way of catching up with every single person

I thoroughly appreciated the article about the Smoker family in Friday’s newspaper, having had my own experiences with navigating the individual health-insurance market.

However, the most relevant was Samantha Smoker’s statement: “Even if you don’t have a (medical) condition now are you so shortsighted to think you will live a charmed life and never have a condition?” Amen.

— Jackie Myers, MD, Scottsdale

Is the Arizona Legislature brain dead when it comes to schools?

Laurie Roberts discussion on the Arizona teacher shortage lays out the fact that Arizona has a underfunded an educational system that will become an educational desert with school vouchers.

The result is a two-tier system with the majority of Arizona children being under-educated and a burden on our social system.

In the meantime our business entities will complain that they can’t find and hire new workers who are capable of doing the tasks required for the success of their business.

The solution is twofold. Make sure all our children are well nourished so they can learn and have our businesses contribute to the school funding for their future benefit. We should be ashamed of a Legislature that can’t see past its own self-interests.

— Thomas Braun, Sun Lakes

We need to see Trump’s taxes to know if he’s on the up and up

The recent letter entitled “Get over the fixation with President Trumps ‘s returns” deserves a response. The author claims to be a “tax practioner.” Not sure exactly what that means. My tax practicioner is a CPA.

The letter writer is correct in the

I do absolutely agree with the person writing that if you can’t afford to feed your children, you shouldn’t have children. It is your job and your job alone to provide for those you choose to enter this world.

We have way too many people with attitudes of entitlement, and I’m worried that the scales will tip soon and there will be more with their hands out wanting free, free, free than there are those who are working and taking care of