LETTER TO THE EDITOR:Echoes of internment

Do you think Costa Mesa should have an immigration law like the one in Hazelton, Penn.?

I got a chuckle out of learned Mayor Allan Mansoor’s response to the Hazelton question (“Politicians mute on Penn. law,” July 17). Since when does passage of an ordinance in a small town in Pennsylvania, comprised of a whopping 30,000 people, and passage of an ordinance in a metropolis like Costa Mesa become evidence of “what’s happening across the nation”?

What we have here is one itty-bitty country town in the East and its slightly larger sister city out west. In fact it’s even more bizarre than that. Like Costa Mesa’s, Hazelton’s ordinance was adopted by the Hazelton City Council. So what is really sweeping across America like a fire storm is just the extremely well thought-out opinion of Larry, Moe, and Curly (here in the West) and their country bumpkin cousins in Pennsylvania: Manny, Moe and Jack.

People like Mansoor paint people as anti-American if they don’t agree with them. But it’s really these six great Americans on these two city councils that are out of touch with the American public.

Paraphrasing a recent Wall Street Journal editorial, poll after poll of conservative Americans indicates the silent majority is overwhelmingly pro-immigration. The latest Tarrance Group survey shows “75% of likely GOP voters support immigration reform that combines increased border and workplace enforcement with a guest-worker system and a multiyear path to citizenship.”

Mansoor seemingly would have us go back to the days following Pearl Harbor — only this time, instead of rounding up hardworking Japanese people, he and his xenophobic comrades would be busy arresting hardworking Latinos.

MIKE DUNN

Costa Mesa