Tom Pugh: You react to an accomplished fact with fear and resentment. Didn't you hear Vasquez and Moyers agree that,"This is labor we desperately need." I wonder what your economic situation is, Tom? Are you eager to be our in the hot sun paving with asphalt, in a hospital laundry loading soiled linen? Maybe your real fear is the "construction supervisor" Vasquez describes or Professor Vasquez himself. It is unnerving to think an immigrant could quickly surpass you in wealth and status in your own country. I worked with a variety of aliens in home building in 1980s Washington, D.C. area and was not hesitant to help Latinos,Africans or others assimilate. I was even fined for hiring an illegal Irishman who was deported. I had only one employee, George from St. Lucia, who attended an immigrant welcoming church with his later arrived wife. George was the sweetest, most helpful and harmless man I knew at that time. I celebrated his green card and his subsequent citizenship well after he left the job for better opportunities. I know George is a good man with a nice family to this day, but he is incapable of criticizing the United States. I see...

This program has been on my mind since I watched it and I finally decided to comment on it. A little late I know. First, I don' think I've seen a more obsequious, fawning interview than that conducted by Moyers on this program. Moyers' was about as objective as Hitler. Never was anything challenged. Anyone opposed to letting ignorant, uneducated people who break American law,spurn educational opportunity (over 50% of Hispanics drop out of school) or acceptance of American culture are derisively dismissed as "restrictionists" while Moyers' cloyingly whines and smiles at anything this guy says. Not once was it mentioned that an overwhelming majority of taxpayers, the ones paying for educational, medical and welfare expenses for this bunch of misfits, are opposed to them being allowed to break the law and stay in this country. The attitude of many politicians who want to cram these people down the throats of normal Americans makes even more of a mockery of the the charade that America is a democracy. If you're going to have a discussion of immigration then include panelists on every side of the issue not just Hispanic zealots who feel that they have been granted a dispensation to...

Your friend who is "undocumented" but has reached middle class is a poor model for his "model children" who are obetying the laws; something their father did not do.