Readers' responses to David McNeill's April 14 Zeit Gist article, "A battle for Japan's future," on the Calderon case:

Living in California and seeing first-hand the results of unlimited illegal immigration through the connivance of the government, both political parties, corporations desiring cheap labor, and the weakness of the American people, I can only say that the demonstrators against the Calderons are absolutely right.

Yes, it is a sad story, but who caused it? Who broke the law and why should the Japanese people suffer for it? One might say, "What does one young girl have to do with that?" but I am not talking about one little girl, just the simple precedent that it would set, which would be used to allow more illegals into the country.