Letters policy: Send by e-mail to letters@gainesvilletimes.com (no attached files, please, which can contain viruses); fax to 770-532-0457; mail to The Times, P.O. Box 838, Gainesville, GA 30503; or click here for a form. Include full name, hometown and phone number for confirmation. They should be limited to one topic on issues of public interest and may be edited for content and length (limit of 500 words). Letters originating from other sources, those involving personal, business or legal disputes, poetry, expressions of faith or memorial tributes may be rejected. You may be limited to one letter per month, two on a single topic. Submitted items may be published in print, electronic or other forms. Letters, columns and cartoons express the opinions of the authors and not of The Times editorial board.
Readers are invited to submit letters pertaining to key issues and general observations concerning the election campaigns. However, we will not publish letters or submissions that directly endorse or criticize candidates for state or local offices, nor submissions from the candidates or their representatives.
Many of us know at least someone who's lost their job to a cheaper worker from another country while our government forces us to pay housing, food and medical services to help subsidize the poverty wages these workers are paid.
Now the same group wants you to believe that allowing illegal students college benefits will not harm our legal children's chance of a college education. Why are those same folks who are protesting against the recent Regents decision simply not out raising money for college tuition for illegal students at private colleges?
With the new government takeover of student lending, race ratios are being set that colleges must meet in order to receive taxpayer funding. The legal Latino population will benefit greatly and that's a good thing.
We have to stop rewarding folks who lie and start rewarding folks who did it the honest way. To the highly paid college presidents, this is an issue of public trust with taxpayer dollars and not an issue of keeping someone from getting a higher education.
The nonprofits who claim to want to help illegal students should start by raising money for their tuition to our public colleges. You will be giving them the gift of living an honest life while we wait on Congress to resolve the immigration mess.
Lynn Everitt
Oakwood