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President. the Wall Street Journal makes it a rather relig1ous habit of not printing my letters to the editors. even though they are written all by myself. I find that to be rather unfair. but I assure you that bias is not unusual at all for them. I believe this inherent editorial bias and unfairness imbues and colors their entire perspective on all immigration issues. Their credo is. "Lets do whatever we think is good for good old American business. no matter how unfair or repugnant it is to illegal aliens and to other Americans." Fortunately. most Americans are smart enough to know better than to swallow that old line of pure guff. I now yield the floor. Exnlirr 1 (From the Dallas Morning News. May 17. How To FEED IMMIGRATION WILDINOS (By Richard Estrada) Several months ago. two young Mexicans stopped me in a Dallas parking lot and asked me for money. They had crossed the border illegally. and now found themselves down on their luck. Nobody would hire them. In the singsong Spanish of Mexico City. one of them explained: "Its that SimpsonRodino law." The 1986 law to control illegal immigration made the newspapers again recently after Hispanic aliens in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington. D.C.. set off two days of riots. By most accounts. street violence began on May 5 after a female police officer shot a drunken. knifewielding Salvadoran immigrant who had lunged at her. Enter the Wall Street Journal. A Journal editorial of May 10 said the riot "was sparked by an alleged abuse of force by a police officer against an immigrant" and let it go at that. The piece went on to term the disorders the "SimponMazzoli" riotswhich was to say that because the employer sanctions law that fines employers for hiring illegal aliens is allegedly causing discrimination against Hispanics legally authorized to work. they rioted not that rioting is right. mind you. However. in addition to getting the name of the law wrong (thats SimpeonRodino) the Journal provided no specific link between discrimination and the rioting. As it turns out. the rioters were complaining not so much about the lack of work. but about not being given more attractive jobs.