I would like to thank you for your hard work and dedication to keep the Tri-County area informed regarding news, sports, and happenings in our area. No longer having children in school and not as many connections of old, it is nice to see pictures and hear stories of our small-town happenings. We have many reasons to be thankful and proud to live in this area.
I would like to interact with the recent article commemorating 911 entitled, “Remember unity, resolve, hope.” I appreciate the remembrance of the 20 years milestone, but I felt that it was more of a promotion of indiscriminate open-door immigration than a remembrance of the occasion and those who died.
I too have a concern for immigrants and their plight. When the United States entered WWII, as a German living in the United States with his family, my father was whisked away to two different alien internment camps for over three years. The night my mother died, in tears, was the only time he briefly shared with me his pain and hurt by the United States. I wish that he was here today so I could ask him more. I have so many questions. We now have the transcripts from his tribunal at the end of the war with him pleading not to be deported from the United States.
I would like to affirm that the general populace of this paper are not the extreme people who hate immigrants and wish to close the borders. Most of us have a great heart for people but recognize the importance of securing our borders and following legitimate immigration policies.
I just read that Jim Clifton, chairman and CEO of Gallup did a poll in 33 countries in Latin -America and the Caribbean asking how many would like to leave their country permanently. Aside from the thousands at our southern border, 42 million adults noted desire to move to the United States. As Clifton surmises later in his article, with that many people wanting to enter our borders, we owe them, 330 million Americans (mostly immigrant-loving people), a clear mandate that is both rational and doable. I think that indiscriminate open borders are neither.
Eric Marx, Kimball
EDITOR’S NOTE: After nearly 22 years as editor of the Tri-County News, I should by now be accustomed to those who “know” what I think, believe, and even promote. I’m usually pretty transparent, but sometimes people miss.
The editorial mentioned above was in response to the use of “Never Forget” memes shared on social media BY SOME in order to incite anti-immigrant, anti–foreigner -fervor – as they do each year around 9/11. As the wife and mother of individuals who immigrated to the United States (one at the age of 2), I am justly concerned for their safety in such a climate.
Having sponsored four individuals, and translated for several others, I know full well the lengthy and sometimes gruelling process of legally immigrating. I am therefore among the last who would advocate to letting any and all come in, any which way.
I only learned some about the Haitian immigration nightmare in Texas on last night’s news. That is certainly not the way to do it.