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Updated: April 11, 2026 @ 6:16 pm
Editor,
Fresh off of his unabashed and unsuccessful attempt to overthrow an American election and to undermine and cancel the foundation of this nation’s democracy, Congressman Kevin McCarthy is now at the United States’ southern border urging us to once again separate children from their parents and to lock children into cages like animals.
As Joe Welch so famously said to Congressman Joseph McCarthy, Kevin’s namesake and Republican soul mate during those infamous 1950s witch trials, “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At last, have you left no sense of decency?”
Bill Farrell
San Carlos
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Bill - I don't know where you get your information but I last heard that over 3,000 minors came over the border without an adult or a parent. Apparently these adults are hoping to get invited to this country once their kids are established here. And, Bill, those cages were built by the Obama administration and they are now filling beyond capacity because your hero Biden opened the sluice gates. Why are you accusing McCarthy of indecency instead pointing your finger at the idiots in DC that caused this?
Actually, Mr. van Ulden, it’s been updated to 13,000 unaccompanied minors. If Mr. Farrell didn’t have fake news to bellyache about, he wouldn’t have anything to write.
Good point Terrence - I noticed he just used talking points provided by the left media. Nothing original from him or his cohorts ever.
Hello, Bill
I think Dirk captured the essence of what's going on with children at the border.
Economist Thomas Sowell, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, said, "Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them." Let me ask you... if someone shows up to claim a child, do you think they will be questioned about why they endangered a child... their son or daughter... by arranging for the child to journey unaccompanied across hostile terrain on foot, guided by human smugglers, and dodging warring cartels during a pandemic?
If you look at the push-pull factors associated with emigration over centuries you will find similarities. However, you will not find the leadership of a destination country opening its border the way we have seen that happen at our country's southern border since January 20.
Good letter, Bill. McCarthy has previously proven himself to be shameless.
Hello, Tommy
Kevin McCarthy's appearance at the border to address the flood of persons crossing the border without permission to do so is not shameless, but the administration's unwillingness to characterize what's happening at the border as a crisis is shameful. Interestingly, FEMA has been called into action... that would suggest there is an emergency of some sort at the very least... "emergency" is in the agency's name.
Shameless are the politicians and NGO's incentivizing this behavior. Latin Americans are not stupid. Who pays to feed, transport and shelter everyone? It isn't the Cartels.
Excellent point, Wilfredo.
Who is providing "Biden, please let us in!" t-shirts and signs?
Hello Mr. Fowler,
A Mexican tale.
While lounging at a pool, in a luxurious Mexican Resort, I was approached by a Mexican businessman. After noticing I was fluent in Spanish with waiters and spoke English with my children and wife, he could not resist asking if I was from the U.S.A. His suspicion affirmed; he continued the conversation by asking if Gringos were as racist as portrayed in the news. Rather than answer his question, I asked him why it mattered to him. Well, he said, I don't understand the problem with letting seek a better life. So, I asked him if he could agree with me that Mexico had two coastlines that were the envy of the world. Si, si, claro que si he answered, beaming from ear to ear with nationalistic pride. Would you agree with me that Mexico has an abundance of agricultural products? Once again, he replied as before. How about oil and gold and silver, enough to export? He was jumping on his chair with patriotic pride. And you have an upper middle class that enjoys time in resorts like this? He nodded in the affirmative with bursting pride. Then why on earth would anyone need the United States to have a good life, I asked. With a dour face he replied, because of corruption! I closed out the conversation by averring, isn't that a problem you need people to resolve?
Brain draining Latin American countries is not helping these people. Neither does foreign aid that never gets to the people needing it most.
Wilfredo... what a great story! Mexico is a land of great culture... great riches... great people. It's beyond sad so many in Mexico feel they have to leave due to corruption. You're correct... the draining of Latin America hurts everyone.
And what has become of the whiners, scared to death of COVID-19. President Biden, their latest hero is following in the foot steps of Trump. A COVID-19 super spreader, only with a heart. ROTFLMAO A mask for him but the nation.
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