Let’s have legal immigration

Apr 7, 2021
Apr 7, 2021 Updated Apr 13, 2025
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Editor,

With Biden’s open border policy, we are seeing children in cages again which started with the Obama presidency. A 92% increase in unaccompanied minors that have been brought across our borders from human smugglers.

(9) comments

Ray Fowler Apr 7, 2021 7:59am

It's amazing that our border has been opened to allow entry from a country with the highest COVID mortality rate in the world. It's amazing the current administration has ignored the wishes of most Americans to maintain a secure border. It's not so amazing the person designated to deal with the open border crisis has neither visited the border nor addressed the crisis publicly.

Dirk van Ulden Apr 7, 2021 9:31am

Isn't it odd that the usual Trump beaters have not uttered a peep about this catastrophic decision by Biden and his gang? Wouldn't you know that Harris is first trying to figure out why we have this massive migration from South of the border and from elsewhere in the world? That has been established and documented already before but she intends to reinvent the wheel. Remember the song of the West Side Story, ' everything is free in America'. That is all you need to know. Let's face it, we are in deep trouble with this administration.

Ray Fowler Apr 7, 2021 10:37am

Hi, Dirk

Good to hear from you this morning. I agree. We are in trouble. I am unabashedly a right leaning centrist. While I am not a Joe Biden fan, he is the president. The question for me is this... can his administration work toward unity and deal with problems that affect all Americans? I would truly like to see that happen, but based on what we've seen over the past 78 days... not likely.

Most Americans... that includes Republicans and Democrats do not support an open border. Most Americans... that includes Republicans and Democrats support voter IDs. Yet, Biden's administration has created a crisis at the border and you are a racist if you disagree with the open border policy. There's more... Biden's administration has doubled down on criticizing Georgia's new voting laws. It is "Jim Crow on steroids" according to the administration. Again, if you disagree with the administration you are a racist. Then, Joe endorses moving a major national sporting event to a state with only a 4% African-American population AND that state has a voter ID requirement.

Will the keyboard warriors in these pages clearly state their support for what's going on at the border? Will they clearly state what they find objectionable in Georgia's voting bill? No. It'll be more of "Trump's a villain!" without any real statements of substance.

Terence Y Apr 7, 2021 11:09am

Well written, Ms. Medrano. Unfortunately, the bungling Biden administration and his handlers don’t appear to be intelligent enough to change their disastrous border policies, because if they were, they never would have again put kids in cages. As Mr. van Ulden intimated, it’s amusing the usual coterie of TDS-infected commenters and letter writers insist on writing about conspiracies, fake news, and hoaxes about our great President Trump in an attempt to distract from Biden’s incompetency.

Wilfred Fernandez Jr Apr 7, 2021 11:13am

The three and five year old girls being dropped from the fence and the little boy bawling his eyes out were heart rending. How can anyone believe that President Biden, after having been in government for decades, could not know the outcome of his campaign words followed by executive orders? People like him must live in a different reality. America has been and continues to be the Shining City on a Hill.

As a wise Mrs. Gump said and Forrest repeated, "Stupid is, as stupid does". In the mean time V.P. Harris will cackle. If President Trump was a racist, what do you call the Biden administration?

Ray Fowler Apr 7, 2021 12:46pm

More wisdom from Wilfredo! I didn't know Mt. Olympus was located in The Last Frontier.

You asked... If Trump is racist, what do you call the Biden administration? I will answer by referring to economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Dr. Thomas Sowell. Dr. Sowell said, "The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'"

The Biden administration is spreading it on pretty thick.

Wilfred Fernandez Jr Apr 7, 2021 2:06pm

Mr. Fowler,

President Obama had his vision of the United States. It was a vision not shared by me. As an aside, and in my opinion, it is the one Biden has been placed in office to continue. Despite that, my love of our country and the people that idolized him caused me to not support McCain nor Romney. Let's hope our fellow citizens are more careful during the upcoming elections.

I had hoped that Biden's minders would select a cabinet worthy of the nation they are charged to lead. Alas, cronyism has prevailed. It is my hope that patriots use the judicial system as well as the saboteurs working against us. For the sake of God, Family, Country.

Ray Fowler Apr 7, 2021 3:18pm

I remember when Barack was first elected in 2008. My closest co-worker and one of my supervisors were African-American. The day after, Nov. 5, to see the pride in their faces and what the election meant to them was inspiring. My supervisor wept. Their feeling of hope made me feel hopeful.

However, the promise of positive change and the actual plan to transform America were not the same thing. You are correct... Joe is now trying to rush through the same old playbook.

It's a good day to read Thomas Sowell. With respect to the current administration's plans, the following observation by Dr. Sowell just might fit... "In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected."

That's what is going on, now.

Wilfred Fernandez Jr Apr 7, 2021 3:31pm

Once again my friend, perfectly said.

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