I find I must respond to the idiotic letter in your Aug. 19 edition from Linda Principe (“There’s no denying that Arizona’s law is racial profiling”). She writes that she is a first-generation American born of immigrant parents. She doesn’t say if her parents came to this country by legal channels.

In regard to Arizona’s immigration law that’s garnering so much heat, she makes the statement that this law is “an insult to Americans who trust in the inherent protection of human rights.” She also states, “Racial profiling disguised as Arizona’s attempt to supersede federal law is unconstitutional.”

First off, just what race is being profiled? Since when is Mexican or Hispanic, or any of those from South or Central America who are sneaking into our country considered a “race”? I’m sick and tired of those who oppose legislation aimed at curbing the immigration problem resorting to the “racist” charge. It may sound good but it just doesn’t float here.

Second, the Arizona law merely supports federal law in this respect and doesn’t “supersede” it. Notwithstanding the judge who emasculated the Arizona law in ruling on it, if one reads the U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section 2, it states: “In all cases affecting . . . and those in which a state shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction.”

How then can we have a ruling on this issue by a judge from a lower court?

Tell me, Linda, shall we simply eliminate our borders and invite everyone to come here and let them all have the “civil rights” that the Constitution guarantees to “citizens”– which, I’m sorry to say, implies “legal” citizenship? Don Volz Thousand Oaks