Inter-race tension natural?

Someone working for two years in Shropshire is imprisoned for having a false passport and is then to be deported to his own country where there is a lot of killing. No wonder he did his best to escape.

A family in the north east were taken at dawn in handcuffs to a plane for Iraq, even though the parents worked in public service and their children worked hard at school.

Their MP fought for them but was ignored, perhaps because he is one of the MPs well known for speaking his mind.

Regular Star letter writer Jim Wood usually causes people to smile, but recently said that it has always been natural for one racial group to dislike another.

Why should it be natural, and would that make it sensible or right?

Long ago I was amazed to be asked if I disliked Jews before being told the speaker was one. I had never heard a racist thought from my "Old Labour" parents or grandparents, not even from my grandfather who was order-ed to fight Germans.

As for deporting people to dangerous countries, it is heartening when a judge seems to scrap red tape and to replace the letter with the spirit of it. But does that happen often enough?

M Stringer, Bridgnorth