Dear Editor,

I do find it appalling that the only coverage our paper gives to the highly controversial topic of immigration is assigned to a patrician writer who chooses to focus on a negative aspect of the HR 4437 issue (“Protesters take their ignorance to the street,” March 31). As it is, the media in the United States has done the same thing as the Campus Times and downplayed what has been going on in Southern California for the past couple of weeks.

Let me remind your writers who their readers are and how some topics should be written on their behalf. Last time I checked, ULV has a Hispanic population of about 40 percent which is one of the highest in California. Therefore, a topic such as immigration in California should receive a bit more coverage and analyzed a bit more thoroughly.

Instead, Andres Rivera decides to look at a small incident and almost neglect the half million people who gathered in Downtown peacefully to show discontent with HR 4437. Half a million people marched down the streets calmly and peacefully for a cause that rang true in their hearts. U.S. flags were the majority that were waved around but the media is not going to show you that. Contact LSF (Latino Student Forum) members who supported the cause and took pictures and they will tell you the same thing.

It’s amazing that the Lakers win a championship and a couple thousand riot and terrorize the city and receive news coverage. But half a million people gather to demonstrate peacefully and no one says a word about it. Then a few rowdy teens that were passionate about a cause but had little guidance and felt that the only power they had was to walk-out gets printed everywhere.

I agree to a certain extent that they should have stayed in school but these schools that are counting on the students to show up were pissed because of the money they lost across the board for a lack of attendance that day.

Rivera, you are entitled to your opinion, but I ask you to be a responsible editor and give a little more substance to your articles. You called the demonstrators ignorant; I should say the same to you, but name calling is immature and a sign of ignorance. I ask you not to only cover a small reaction by teenagers but force yourself to look at the blatantly obvious adult group’s demonstration.

The bill is in Senate debate and it looks as though the criminal provision in the bill will be taken out. Debate is scheduled for about two more weeks. Two weeks won’t solve anything, but our paper should spend some more time researching the events and issues and not spout off at minuscule events like Rivera has done.

Adam Carranza
Sophomore