For John, BLUF: In our name the Federal Government is allowing conditions to exist which result in immorality being inflicted on those trying to reach the United States outside the legal immigration process. Nothing to see here; just move along.
From The [Lowell] Sun, Letters to the Editor, by Citizen C R Krieger, 22 September 2021.
Here is the lede plus three:
Last month some 200,000 human beings came across our southern border, helping to perpetuate two separate, but related, evils.The letter goes on to suggest that we help these people by allowing them to self identify in their nation of origin and provide them transportation to the United States, rather than requiring them to run a violent and expensive gauntlet to prove their worthiness to come to the United States.The first evil is that people we are willing to accept as refugees are forced to endure a gauntlet of hardship, theft and sexual abuse for the privilege of crossing our southern border. Amongst those 200,000 last month, we have seen seemingly abandoned children. We hear reports of rape and extorted sex. If we pay attention, we hear of child abuse. Then there are the fees applied by the human traffickers for their “services.”
The second evil is the fostering of cartels in Mexico, which are smuggling drugs into our nation.
These are drugs which harm our population, and in particular our youth and our less fortunate.
Space being what it is, the letter does not go on to suggest that an equally effective alternative would be to finish rebuilding the border wall and turning people back, which would have a ripple effect, discouraging others from trying the trek.
The point is that what we are doing now is morally wrong. Further, it is probably not sustainable. We, as Citizens, need to reach out to our US Representative and two Senators and say that the present process is not only not working, but is a moral embarrasment.
Regards — Cliff
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