Regarding the Sept. 4 article "Hatoyama a hawk on . . . illegal immigrants": It is nice to know that Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama is irked by "immigrants" and that he links them with crime. How ironic it is, then, that recent funding scandals involving farm ministers, Vice Foreign Minister Yukiko Sakamoto and others taint the ruling Liberal Democratic Party -- of which Hatoyama is a member -- with corruption and criminality.

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