Blame in Crash

I am writing in response to your article regarding the tragic accident in Temecula, where four high school students and one father were killed during a high speed chase involving illegal aliens and the border patrol.

Perhaps because I have children in this age group and mentally flashed on their own mortality, the story brought tears to my eyes. There truly are no guarantees that our children will be blessed with full life.

However, my tears turned to anger when I realized that, throughout the entire article, the only “blame” cast was for the Border Patrol.

Didn’t it occur to your writer and editors who approved this article that the reason for the chase was that a group of people who were in this country illegally, in a vehicle stolen from an American citizen, refused to stop for the Border Patrol for fear of deportation?

Do these illegal aliens escape the criticism of our public, while their actions, their very presence here, initiated the horrifying events that led to the deaths of five people?

Do we have enough blood left in our bleeding hearts to accommodate the families of those five, or only enough for the illegals?

Do we have enough money left in our coffers to pay for the Life Flights and the medical bills for these illegal aliens?

We certainly do not have to pay for our own people involved--they require no after-care, only burial.

If the Border Patrol made an inexcusable mistake in judgment in pursuing these people through the streets of Temecula, then we, the silent majority, are making an even more inexcusable mistake in accepting the conditions that allowed this accident to happen.

We cannot afford to give shelter and sustenance to the world and to pay for their crimes with our lives.

These illegals were criminals, involved in a criminal action, they are not the innocent suffering, they are people here to take advantage of the lax rules of our indifferent society.

We allow them to be here, we provide the arena for these tragedies.

The innocent suffering are the families of the dead, left behind to deal with their loss.

I am no longer willing to be silent or indifferent.

SUSAN HEISER, San Diego