yes I used the words illegal immigrant rather than the politically correct undocumented worker. If you entered the US illegally, then illegal immigrant is the correct term.

I’m not going to change it because someone doesn’t like it. it is a statement of fact, whether we like it or not and nothing short of ignoring reality will change that.

There are laws on how to enter the US legally. There are laws in regards to becoming a US citizen. If you break those laws, then you have done something illegal.

It is not a racist term or remark. It is not an insult to anyone. It’s simply a fact. It doesn’t even matter whether or not you agree with the immigration laws in the US. The fact remains that they are laws and if you want them changed there is a democratic process in place to do so.

But until that happens, the law remains the same and if someone breaks it they have done something illegal. I’m just tired of the way people try to spin this issue into one of race, poilitics, poilitical correctness, etc. It is a matter of law plain and simple.

If I run a business I have to get a business license. I don’t have to like it. I don’t have to agree that the city has the right to tell me I have to have one. But it is the law and they can shut down my business if I do not get one.

You do not have to agree that a law is just and fair in order for it to really be a law. Disagreeing with a law does not mean that you can ignore the law.

The police officer in this story arrested people who broke laws.

Dream Turns Nightmare: Milwaukee Police Officer to Be Deported
By CATRIN EINHORN

Growing up here, Oscar Ayala-Cornejo recalls, he played chess and devoured comics, hung out at the mall and joined the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps. After high school, he realized a childhood dream, joining the Milwaukee Police Department.

But when Mr. Ayala-Cornejo filled out recruitment papers, he used the name of a dead relative who had been a United States citizen. He had to, Mr. Ayala-Cornejo says, because ever since his parents brought him here from Mexico when he was 9, he has lived in the country illegally.

In other words, he broke the law. We had terrorists who got fake drivers licenses before 911 and everyone screams why didn’t anyone catch them and put them in jail before they hit the world trade center!

Yet, the media spins the immigration issue completely the other way when this poor “undocumented worker” lied to become a police officer.

The life that Mr. Ayala-Cornejo carefully built here, including more than five years with the police force, is to end at noon on Saturday, when, heeding a deportation order, he will board a plane bound for the country he left as a child.

In May, acting on an anonymous tip, immigration agents arrested him on charges of falsely representing himself as a citizen. He pleaded guilty, and is now permanently barred from the United States.

“I’m going to be saying goodbye to my family, my friends, my city — everything that I know,” Mr. Ayala-Cornejo, 25, said in an interview at the home he shares with his widowed mother and his brother, filled with family photos.

See how this is supposed to be a news report of the facts, but they want you to feel so bad because this happened? Yes, it was his parents choice to bring him here at the age of 9, not his. Yes he lived here all of his life.

But he is assumed to be capable of making his own decisions as an adult at age 18. It was then he chose not to apply for citizenship. it was years later that he chose to use a false name to apply to be a police officer.

His decisions led him to be deported, not the decision his parents made to bring him here at the age of 9. He chose to break the law and only got deported. In Mexico it is a felony to be an illegal immigrant and you can be put in prison for years.

Mr. Ayala-Cornejo’s case is familiar to many illegal immigrants. Brought here by their parents illegally as children, they grow up thinking of themselves as Americans, often speaking English without a trace of an accent. But their immigration status frequently catches up with them when they prepare to attend college or take a job.

Those who avoid detection, if only temporarily as Mr. Ayala-Cornejo did, can lead lives more appealing than work at the carwash or in restaurant kitchens. Although usually associated with low-income jobs, illegal immigrants work in every sector, said Oscar A. Chacón, executive director of the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities.

“Think about it: 12 million people,” Mr. Chacón said of the estimated number of illegal immigrants. “Does it really mean they are all working in stockyards, as landscapers, in hotels? No, they are doing all the jobs you can think of.”

Gosh. All of those people that claim that illegal immigrants only take jobs that Americans are unwilling to do must be ignoring this purposely. The fact that illegal immigrants do actually take jobs away from American Citizens that they would want does not suit the purpose of those who want to declare amnesty for illegal immigrants.

I’m all for people immigrating to this country. This country was built on it. But becoming a legal citizen is part of the process. Eliminating that part of the process could only lead to chaos.

The news media needs to stop spinning illegal acts into sob stories. If they want to talk about how bad our immigration laws are, then they should write an opinion piece like I just did.

This has been my opinion. I’m not writing a news piece. If I had been writing a news piece I would have reported the facts rather than spinning it to meet some corporate agenda the owners of the newspaper have.

Write opinions and label them as opinions. When reporting the news, try sticking to the facts. CATRIN EINHORN, it’s called journalism.