David Schortner: You can’t compare today’s immigrants to those of 1776
Re “Soldiers of revolution didn’t wait for papers” (Opinions, April 25): This is the dumbest “our view” yet. For the writer(s) to compare 21st century America, which is supposed to be a nation of laws, to pre-nation events that took place in the 18th century, defines the meaning of comparing “apples to oranges.”
Articles like this are the reason “journalists credibility” is lower than a politician’s, if that’s possible. This is a big part of the “dumbing down” of the soon to be “Late Great USA”.
David Schortner, Modesto
This story was originally published April 27, 2015 at 3:59 PM with the headline "David Schortner: You can’t compare today’s immigrants to those of 1776."