Your article, "Abuse of crab pickers is alleged" (July 15), prompted me to respond. I am an immigrant who used to prepare employment and family-based visas.

The U.S. has millions of low-skilled unemployed workers and able-bodied welfare recipients. Why don't we give them incentives to take crab picker jobs and other positions currently held by illegal migrants?

Should the federal government continue to borrow from China and other countries to create jobs, or should we immediately enact some sort of immigration moratorium and seriously enforce our immigration laws across the board, as stricly as China and Mexico do, so that we can first put legal immigrants and U.S.-born citizens to work?

Yeh Ling-Ling, Orinda CA

The writer is executive director of the Alliance for a Sustainable USA