I think they have a fine reporting staff. I have known many of them: Al Hunt and Jim Perry and many others. for whom I -have the highest respect and regard. But I noted recently the Wall Street Journal had written another rather puerile and boneheaded editorial on immigration. which they do with great gusto every now and then. blaming the recent disturbance in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washingtona very vexatious thing to all of uson the original immigration legislation which was originally sponsored by my dear friend. Congressman ROMANO MAZZOLI. and myself. In calling the recent violence a "SimpsonMazzoli riot." the Journal once again. I think. reveals what its base wishes really are. and they are. No. 1. open borders. That is their feeling: Open borders in order that more and more illegal immigrants may enter the United States and work. Under what conditions it is not important. just so they do their goodold work. No. 2. largescale employment of illegal aliens. so millions of these aliens may be kept in a form of slave labor by U.S. employers. in order to meet the Journals own peculiar and longheld version of "free market capitalism.". I. too. consider myself to be a "free market capitalist." but I surely do not favor giving employers such a crude and cruel leverage over Illegal aliens that these people will be afraid to ask for decent wages or working conditions or else they risk sure and certain and swift deportation. And I believe most Americans might agree with me that the open border situation which the Journal advocates is certainly not in "the national interest." So I would. if I may. Mr.
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Generalization that illegal immigrants are exploited as slave labor.