I can just see the comments we’re going to get on this story — ugly, racist comments that always seem to end up being appended to anything we write about the issue of immigration.
But that would be unfair to the undocumented immigrants who now face longterm incarceration and deportation — all because they were involved in a car accident on the N.J. Turnpike caused by an elderly driver heading the wrong way.
The accident just points out something that one of the lawyers I interviewed back in May — I believe it was Princeton attorney Roger Martindell: That the smallest quirk of fate can have terrible consequences for the undocumented.
I know nothing about the men traveling in the truck that was hit on the Turnpike, but three are now in the county lockup and two have escaped back into the shadows — a sad ending that was completely out of their control.
I know they were not supposed to be here. But they are and they were just minding their business and now face the brunt of what our dysfunctional immigration system has to offer. It just points up the arbitrary and completely inhumane manner in which the system functions — treating men and women whose only crime was wanting to improve their lives as if they were the most hardened of criminals.
Hank Kalet 
There is no reasoning with xenophobia (and now I will be accused of approving of illegal entry into this country, I do not). I am surprised that illegal immigrants are still coming to this country with our massive unemployment problems. But then illegal immigrants are willing to work for depressed wages with no benefits and they can be fired on a whim and they are little more than perma-temps (indentured servitude). We need a strong union movement in this country, corporate America just has too much control over everything.