Dear Editor: Addressing my previous letter, Edith Newman says we accomplish nothing by vilifying people who are fleeing terror and we should monitor our own attitudes and the adherence to moral principles by our government.

Very true. But shouldn’t this also include not making false accusations towards those addressing specific problems in the immigration problem? What good is ever accomplished by those who insist on moral lectures about immigration that fail to make necessary moral distinctions, like those who endlessly insist on lumping together legal and illegal immigration.

Admittedly, even among the illegals, most cases are sympathetic, but not every one! There are terrorists among those fleeing terror and there are criminals among those fleeing criminals and tyrants. And those who carelessly apply “stringent vetting” as a general term for immigrant screening, including illegals whose very existence is unknown, are being as absurd as someone claiming scientists are intensely studying unicorns.

PAUL KREIG

Bayside