Recently in a TimesDaily article, Sen. Roger Bedford was quoted as saying he voted for the illegal immigration law, but now is against it because it is a veiled form of racism. Reading another that quotes Hispanic and Guatemalan immigrants, it seems they have figured out that they can use the racism card to great advantage, even to breaking the law. If you deport someone back to their country for being here illegally; if you want to arrest someone for having no driver’s license, no auto insurance, no tag, or paying no taxes because they are illegally in this country, you must be a racist.

Being black, white, brown or any other race has never been a crime, still isn’t. The law is not against a race, it is against coming into our country illegally.

The question remains: What part of illegal is not understood? It is not just Alabama. The United States has such laws, and just because the federal government decides not to enforce them doesn’t mean individual states have to ignore them. What if the feds decide that rape, murder and theft are not worthy of their time to prosecute, is it automatically then semi-legal to do these things? Common sense tells us we have to draw the line somewhere. Oh, I forgot, we are dealing with politicians, forget I mentioned common sense.

I am a Christian and my Bible says to love and obey the laws of the land, to love the sinner but hate the sin. There is balance. Jesus fulfilled the law but never did away with it. Jesus is still our salvation but even he obeyed the law.

Michael Darling

Killen