Editor,
I can only hope we weren’t given the full story in a recent Journal article. In it, the Assembly voted to approve $50 million to help fight the deportation of people illegally in our country. At the end of the article it states that $4 million is given to cities to help with the rebuilding of lost homes and $1 million to help rebuild lost school buildings. And we wonder why the rest of the country shakes their head when the talk is about how California is governed.Â
And then there are the remarks from the Assembly Speaker Rivas (and this is the top guy) about a threat to constitutional rights. I don’t remember any part of the Constitution that gives any rights to people illegally in the country. Humanitarian rights maybe, but not constitutional ones.
Migrant labor is critical to the California economy, particularly in the agriculture sector. The solution is not making lawyers rich but providing a streamlined system, i.e. green cards, visas, etc., that would allow these individuals to be legally in our country.Â
Steven Howard Â
Redwood City
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(2) comments
Unfortunately, Mr. Howard, voters get the government they deserve. It is likely that this $50 million slush fund will go to cronies and making lawyers rich in attempting to protect criminals above that of legal California residents. We can only hope Trump will withhold federal funds for anything and everything and California voters will need to decide whether they’ll continue to support treasonous Dem politicians.
Aren't the actions in Sacramento mirrored by those in Redwood City, i.e., the county and the state are on the same page here, no?
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