Are we willing to pay the price for open borders?
To the editor:
The letter this week with the statement we need “to guarantee constitutional and international human rights to those who need those rights the most” confounds me.
First of all, we don’t know who needs them the most. We only see caravans and corrupt border broker’s clients. This is one of the biggest businesses among the degenerates that will do anything to make a buck including letting groups of people die in an overheated truck.
But secondly, if we want to provide this guarantee then we are opening up our borders to all of Venezuela, most of Cuba, much of China, all of North Korea, most of Africa and many in the Middle East. Is the writer prepared to move 30 people into his home? Is he willing to have 20 million people move into southwest Florida? Is he willing to pick up the educational, health, welfare, and related expenses for these people? California is the most open to illegal immigrants and they are first in poverty, first in homeless and first in taxes. What would happen if they really opened up their borders?
The other issue is that when we receive people whose country doesn’t work, they often move into this country and try to change us to the one they left. Somalians are abundant now in Minnesota. They are the top provider of ISIS recruits, anti-Jewish and promote the Jihadist Muslim religion. They already have one of the first congresswomen in the U.S. promoting Somali ideals. Is that what you want?
To suggest that we need to open up our borders says to me that one doesn’t like America. The writer apparently doesn’t like Trump. I can appreciate that. I didn’t like Clinton and believe that Obama was one of the worse presidents in the last 70 years. However I criticized what they were or were not doing instead of just calling them names. But I wasn’t motivated by hate just trying to make America better.
John Benedict
Cape Coral