LA Times

Re: Newt Gingrich mocks Mitt Romney on ‘self-deportation,’ by Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 25

Newt Gingrich in attacking Mitt Romney on the concept of self-deportation of illegal aliens currently in the United States ignores the long and successful history of self-deportation in this country. The sad thing is that you don’t even have to be a former professor of history — which Gingrich claims to be — to note that in states that recently have passed laws aimed at enforcing existing Federal laws against illegal immigration, the illegals have indeed chosen to self-deport. Furthermore, it’s disgusting that any candidate for president seems more concerned about the “humanity” of foreign criminals than that of the legal citizens he purportedly wants to represent.

Greg Raven, Apple Valley, CA