Bush on Borders
In your coverage of the inauguration of President George W. Bush, an interviewee misrepresented Bush's positions on immigration (News, "Hailing the Chief," Jan. 17). Contrary to the beliefs of Adams House chef and Dining Hall Workers Union official Edward B. Childs, President George W. Bush is pro-immigration.
Not only has he proposed dividing the Immigration and Naturalization Service into separate enforcement and naturalization divisions to help to eliminate the negative connotations of the agency, but he also supports speedier naturalization and issuing more employment visas.
Certainly Bush is for the enforcement of immigration laws to prevent illegal immigration, but so was former Vice-President Al Gore '69 and former President Clinton. The automatic assumption that Republicans must be anti-immigration is dangerous and false.
Mattie J. Germer '03
Jan. 22, 2001