Writer might be exiled to baseball land

After reading the Friday letter “Illegal immigration is wrong, period” from Tim Daniel, I want to clarify something for him. Using his analogy, let’s say that he, Daniel, was taken to an Ohio State University football game by his mother when he was 4. She did the wrong, illegal thing, by sneaking into the stadium without paying. She also never left.

Daniel grew up in Ohio Stadium learning football and all of the culture that surrounds it. He was brought up speaking football. He went to school with other people who spoke football and learned football and then when he graduated from high school, he started working a good job helping football people. Let’s say he became a football EMT.

Then one day when he was 25, someone found out that his mom snuck into the stadium and she and he and his siblings, who all grew up with football and had no idea their mom snuck into the stadium, were told Daniel had to leave: leave his job, his girlfriend, all of the football things that he knows and grew up with.

He is being deported because his mom did something wrong. He learns that he has to go to the land of baseball. Daniel doesn’t know anything about baseball, he doesn’t speak baseball, and knows nothing of baseball culture.

I wish Daniel good luck in baseball land.

Sean Williams Upper Arlington