Linda Principe recently responded to a letter about the Arizona immigration law. She began saying, “There’s no denying that Arizona’s law is racial profiling.” Then she went on to attack the authors of the law and an Arizona state senator who sponsored it.

Linda skillfully “laid it on,” with all the emotion one might expect from a true believer in a cause so politically charged. Unfortunately, she never quoted or even referenced the actual law.

The Arizona state Legislature found that a “compelling interest in the cooperative enforcement of federal immigration laws” exists.

It’s been reported that SB- 1070 closely mimics existing federal law, with even more protections for everyone.

What about human rights? Human trafficking is serious business. Lives are taken needlessly every year we allow uncontrolled immigration. Ransom is paid to “coyotes” and their handlers, or families will face violence and execution back in Mexico.

Apparently Linda knows what’s best for them more than anyone else.

Quoting partisan websites makes the matter unclear. Immigration is a complex issue. I’d like to challenge Linda and others to actually read SB-1070.

Before he was elected president, John Adams defended British soldiers in the Boston Massacre case. In that defense he was quoted saying, “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

Fact: Our Constitution was written for citizens of the United States, not citizens of Sweden, Canada or even Mexico. The Preamble to the Constitution is quite clear: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America” (to ourselves and our posterity . . . for the United States of America).

I sincerely hope that you, the reader, will first consider those “stubborn things.” Then develop your own opinion. Timothy Bond Thousand Oaks