letter to the editor
February 11, 2009
Immigration tax: a response
Letter to the editor: I found Annalisa Harder's article "Alumnus proposes Goshen immigration tax," which appeared in the Jan. 29 issue of the Record, to be unclear on several points and inaccurate on several others. After identifying these and my concerns with this tax, I offer some other suggestions for improving the lives of the many undocumented immigrants living among us. The first unclear aspect in the article was the interchangeable use of "illegal immigrants" (used once) and "immigrant(s)" (used 12 times). What is at issue is that some immigrants have documents recognized by the federal government for employment and...