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Regarding your Aug. 6 editorial (“Keep Open a Window to Police”): “detaining illegal aliens who had committed no crime”?

The last time I looked, it was a crime to enter this country without permission and proper papers. This is why those who enter without permission are called illegal aliens--they are here illegally, having broken federal law in the process.

DUNCAN McCARTHY

San Diego

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