According to Steven Kale's Nov. 26 letter, "Let’s not forget America was founded by illegal immigrants," the Pilgrims and Jamestown colonists were illegal immigrants. Really? Some questions for Mr. Kale:

What was the name of the immigration law they violated?

Which political entity passed that law and who signed it?

Was there a Department of Naturalization responsible for enforcing it?

Why weren’t William Bradford and his companions prosecuted?

Weren’t they just poor refugees escaping violence in their home country?

Shouldn’t they have been given a pathway to citizenship?

I eagerly await Mr. Kale’s answers.

Duncan Murray, Eugene