Letters to the Editor: Sept. 21-22, 2024

Published 5:00 am Saturday, September 21, 2024

Bipartisan immigration policy worked in the ‘60s/’70s

I recently read a news item which told of a 35-year-old DACA recipient who was hesitant to share his legal status over social media. I am not so worried about their digital-footprint as I am their literal footprint, if illegally here.

I am “for” legal immigration, within legally proscribed quotas that America can sustain. However, illegal immigration places an undue strain on the host country (America) for feeding, clothing, sheltering and sometimes jailing those who enter.

It astounds me that we have just honored the anniversary of D-Day in 1944 led by General Eisenhower to keep us free. Had we been defeated, we would be speaking German or Japanese now if we had been conquered. In the year 1954, President Eisenhower instituted the largest mass deportation in history called “Operation Wetback.” That was its official name. Now, it is almost taboo to say it. But, the measure was needed, Eisenhower (a Republican) deported 1.3 million illegal aliens in 1954. President Kennedy (Democrat) deported over 70,000 aliens in 1963 alone. JFK was firm yet compassionate. He worked with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the Lutheran Council, the AFL-CIO, the Council of Churches to make sure America was not bogged-down. Hungarians were helped as well as others.

This shows Ike and JFK believed in fixed, feasible limits. Taxpayers shouldn’t bear the brunt. Anyone who disagrees should open their refrigerators and spare bedrooms and take personal responsibility. Legal immigration is fine if assimilation occurs.

James A. Marples

Longview

Climate criminals

The media who are members of the ministry of propaganda are constantly hammering on the “danger” of climate change and the need to take drastic steps to save our planet from oblivion. The problem with this nonsense it is false and a complete lie. Their argument for these dramatic steps claims that man is primary cause of the increase in global temperature ignoring the existence of God who created the earth and controls what happens.

Further, assuming mankind is at fault also assumes it was never hotter at any previous time in history. In fact, it has been warmer as evidenced by cold blooded creatures like dinosaur remains being found in Hudson Bay where they could live if the climate was as cold as presently. In addition, hydrocarbons which are compressed plant matter clearly indicate tropical plants grew in places like Siberia.

So, what is behind this effort to blame mankind and ban hydrocarbons? The answer is control of our economy and the entire planet. One of the main climate criminals is the United Nations as well as fools like Al Gore. The idea is to destroy capitalism and replace it with worldwide socialism (Think Harris/Walz) where we are all handed our daily bread by a benevolent tyrannical government. A leader in this destructive effort is one Hans Klaus who proposes a new reset and world order. Klaus is convinced socialism is the answer despite lots of historical failures.

Dennis Bosch

Arp

Informed Voters Versus Shills

Our government under our Constitution operates at the pleasure and consent of a majority of citizens, determined by elections. Fair, free, honest elections depend on “informed” citizens voting. That is the reason our founders included freedom of the press in the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States (The first 10 amendments known as Citizen’s Bill of Rights).

At what point do citizens lose confidence and respect for the “elected and employees” running our government? Throughout history that has been a determining factor and force for the future. Ancient Rome is among many examples where citizens became disgusted, disillusioned and fed up with incompetent, wasteful, self-serving corrupt politicians and their “puppet fake governments” that didn’t obey or respect the law of the land, our Constitution!

The last four years have seen fall from greatness to the edge of disaster under Democrat rule: out of control spending, debt, a weaponized political justice system, an open border causing unlimited future debt, crime, repulsive education system, out of control 300 agencies with thousands of bureaucrats making “laws.” Self-serving Congress owned by multinational corporations, known as the Washington swamp. Politicians who become billionaires on a modest fixed government salary, as working citizens struggle under burdensome laws, fake climate change blown up beyond reality that destroyed U.S. energy independence, politicians under the influence of foreign enemies.

A nation under the above conditions can’t long endure. Are voters listening?

Harry Bergman

Tyler