Dear Editor: This is concerning the letter “Work to Dissolve Borders” (May 20).

No one I know is against immigrants. We in the United States are all immigrants, as am I, or descendants of immigrants.

It’s the illegal immigrants whom people are not ready to accept.

Any hungry people should be helped. Send food, clothing or other help, but we have to know who is coming into our country, just as we must know who is coming into our home.

B. CHORZEPA

Rego Park

Dear Editor: I write in reply to the letter written by Donald J. Young (May 20) “Work to Dissolve Borders.” I read with bewilderment, curiosity and interest at his thoughts regarding immigration and protecting or dissolving our borders while replying to Father John Catoir’s column (April 29).

Borders define more than a country or a nation. They also define character and will, or in this instance, political resolve to change for the better. An individual or a people are not politically free if they cannot pursue their economic freedom and opportunity. If you remove economic opportunity, you take away freedom.

Those who walk away from protecting their own economic interests – better expressed as Life, Liberty and Happiness – are a curious people, sadly perhaps, also poor in spirit.

Dissolving borders will only encourage those who have not heeded the message of love to continue their reprehensible policies, permitting and encouraging people to walk away from their political responsibility and disregard just laws in another society.

These illegal immigrants should focus their economic attentions in their native lands and not illegally arrive in ours and tell us our laws are wrong. They send money home, which is worthy of praise, but might benefit us here if spent here where earned.

Correcting this situation affecting millions of adults and children will require Christian love – tough Christian love and maybe a bit of money on the illegals’ part, which may discourage further illegal immigration.

JOSEPH A. CULLINA

Richmond Hill