Like almost all Americans, my people were immigrants, some quite recent; I favor carefully controlled legal immigration. On the other hand, I see uncontrolled, Illigal immigration as socially and economically disruptive, both to the lives of established American citizens and those who have followed the legal route to immigration. I live in San Rafael, California whose schools have been overrun by illegal immigrants, to the detriment of education in general. Illegal immigrants crowd our public spaces, often assaulting us with demands for work, and illegals crowd into our Canal neighborhood, which has become a slum with twenty or more people living in small apartments, prostitution, drug dealing, and high levels of violence and property crime. That San Rafael's illegal immigrants are mostly Latino is immaterial; the race card is often played unfairly in this controversy. My wife is Chinese, her grandparents having legally immigrated to the Hawaiian Islands, and my own forebearers include members of most races, including Native Americans and African Americans. What Americans fail to realize is that--beyond the apparent benefit of cheap labor for housekeeping, gardening, construction and agricultural pursuits--illegal immigrants compete unfairly with working American citizens, which drives down wages. In addition illegal immigrants are often uncommited to American social and civic values, and they overload our social services, especially hospitals and law enforcement agencies. As individuals, most illegal immigrants are enterprising and industrious, however I believe it constitutes poor public policy to sanction widespread illegal immigration. Though Sheriff Arpaio is often reactionary, demonstrating remarkable ignorance in some cases, I would favor his approach if he were to come to my town.