Letter: Keep them out!

Friday 18 December 1998 00:02 GMT

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Sir: By and large, I enjoy David Aaronovitch's blend of humour and wisdom; but I do believe this most recent argument to be self-defeating ("Who are these asylum-seeking scum? They're people like my grandparents", 15 December).

As I understand it, a more rigorous set of immigration conditions would have disallowed the entry into this country of David's paternal grandparents, and that we as a consequence would lose the benefit of his sagacity. He then adds that the same stringent laws would also have deprived us of Michael Howard, and Nicholas van Hoogstraten.

Now as far as I am concerned, that's a price worth paying.

ANDREW McKENZIE

Woking, Surrey

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