LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Wanted: Wilson, Pershing resolve

OPINION:

In 1916, in response to Pancho Villa’s gang raiding a New Mexico town and other Mexican gangs attacking and killing Americans inside U.S. borders, President Woodrow Wilson dealt with the incursion post haste. He dispatched Gen. John J. Pershing with some 200,000 troops, to hunt down the gangs inside Mexican borders.

That kind of resolve is needed now. If the nation of Mexico is too feckless to act on its own, a new U.S. expedition into it to destroy the drug cartels and human-trafficking operations that violate our borders would be more exigent than the defensive tactics and nanny operations now failing. And illegal immigrants 18 years old and up might be drafted into a militia to aid the effort.

HENRY HAHN

Baltimore