Letter: Responsibility needs to be accepted

Tuesday, May 9, 2006 | 7:32 a.m.

I hope I do not shock anyone when I make a correlation between immigration and insurgency. Both are problems to the U.S. government because they are counterproductive to the goals set forth by law-abiding citizens. The solution, simple but not easy, requires those immigrants who have come here legally, and the Iraqis who have chosen to work with the U.S. for peace and a democracy, to accept the responsibility of assisting America in minimizing the problems at hand. This would require the Iraqi army and police to recognize the insurgents as their enemy, and by not ridding their nation of that element keeps them from living in peace and a democracy.

In America, it would require legal, documented immigrants to recognize that the illegal, undocumented immigrants are giving them a bad name and their efforts are needed to first of all keep the problem from getting worse, and second of all, to work with U.S. authorities to identify those immigrants who are illegal.

If the Iraqis can't get themselves to work with us, Iraq will be in a mess for a long time. If the legal immigrants can't get themselves to work with us, they will continue to be part of a society that is misunderstood and mistrusted. God bless America.

Ken Anderson, Las Vegas