Numbers, not race

Mainers for Immigration Re-form is working to reduce the level of immigration and enact the recommendations of President Clinton’s U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform. It was the conclusion of this commission that the current level of immigration is harmful for all Americans, native born and recent immigrants. The issue concerns numbers, and not race.

Unfortunately, racial agendas are lurking on all sides of this debate. There are those who claim that Maine is too white, and there are those who claim we might become too dark. We join with all responsible Mainers in condemning those who dwell upon the ethnicity of our people. All racial agendas are un-American.

And to those who are attracted to the immigration reform movement because you don’t like the race of our immigrants, we say: Go to hell. You don’t belong in our movement.

Jonette Christian

Holden