Your call for giving in-state tuition privileges to children of undocumented immigrants ("College bound, but undocumented," Jan. 24) repeatedly claimed that this issue isn't really about immigration.

You omit the enablement dilemma that always accompanies every attempt at charitable intervention. How do we ameliorate the consequences of bad choices without encouraging continuation of those same bad choices? How does your approach avoid enabling more violation of immigration law that most of our grandparents or great-grandparents had to go through?

Contrary to the editorial, illegal immigration really is central to the problem. It caused the problem and will keep on causing the problem if enabled.

Charles Clough, Bel Air