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UNPLEASANT EATS
We took Gwyneth [Doland] up on her review of the restaurant Al Di La last week [Total Pig, Nov. 15: "
"]. Although I believe that she had a good experience, we had a horrible one. After over an hour of receiving nothing but frozen bread, our table mates, who were strangers, had eaten their whole meal and no one once tried to resolve the problem. After I complained, they continued to do nothing and expressed no regret.
We left that scary alternate universe of bedlam and chaos and had a wonderful meal elsewhere, where we were treated by compassionate people as human beings. Al Di La has a long way to go before they get half a clue what it means to serve the public; meanwhile, I will never go there again.
Jane Brodie
Santa Fe
PUPPY LOVE
Kudos to the Santa Fe Animal Shelter for their Reporter adoption ads. They're imaginative and refreshing and are among the best print ads I've seen.
Ann Gross
Santa Fe
SOARING TALENT
Thank you for featuring
A Luminous Cabaret
as one of last week's picks [SFR Picks, Nov. 22]. This past weekend's show was at least as good as last year's-which was fantastic! The level of skill, art and heart on display makes me proud to be a Santa Fean, and, in fact, it's a little spooky to know that such talent walks among us.
I only hope that this amazing show finds some way to expand beyond Thanksgiving weekend, as I know that all the shows this weekend sold out.
Congratulations to Wise Fool New Mexico, Moving People Dance Theater, Round Mountain, The brilliant Dullards and all involved. It was an unbelievable show.
Jim Terr
Santa Fe
SEND BACK ILLEGALS
Thank you for your letter about illegal immigration, Lois Gacher [Letters, Nov. 22: "
"]. I become very angry when I hear people say, "We are a country of immigrants, my ancestors were poor immigrants and we need these unskilled workers." True, most of our ancestors were poor immigrants, but they came into our country in the 18th and 19th centuries when the US had a very small population, lots of land and lots of opportunity. Most all of our ancestors were legal as they had to get here by boat. What we are getting now are people walking illegally across our borders.
People do not realize that the majority of illegals who are sneaking into the US are poor, unskilled workers. They come here with no sponsor or any idea of what kind of job they will get. The jobs they do get are low-paying hourly jobs whereby they do not get any health insurance. What happens if they get sick or hurt and can no longer work? They go to the hospital and get free medical care and eventually end up on welfare. Allowing these people in this country by the masses and giving them the same privileges as our citizens is not fair. People who come into our country legally have to go through procedures to become a citizen that take five or six years.
If we were not spending money on this Iraq war, we could work with Mexico to improve her economy and create jobs in Mexico so these people would not want to come to the US. There is no reason why Mexico cannot take care of her people, but Mexico has always nurtured the rich and ignored the poor.
If our present immigration laws were enforced, there would be far fewer illegals getting into our country. Our US government does not want to bother to enforce the laws already on the books. Instead, some of our government officials want to give amnesty to those disobeying our laws!
All we can do as citizens is educate people to the problem of illegal immigration and write to our congressmen to pass at least two laws: 1) Fine heavily anyone hiring illegals. 2) No citizenship allowed to babies born of illegals. We also want to make clear to our congressmen that the US Border Patrol has to do a better job. We must have stricter discipline on the border.
Our government has to do their job or we will have a great poverty problems in the future.
Bonnie Cline
Santa Fe
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