OPINION:
Taxpayers such as myself are dumbfounded by the open-door border policies of the current administration. How does the Biden team intend to provide housing, health care, education and jobs for nearly 2 million people without raising taxes on us? This is creating a new wave of poverty for individuals in a country already struggling to provide for citizens.
How are we, as superpower, willing to embrace so many illegal immigrants while nations such as Russia, China, Mexico and even a small nation like Israel understand the importance of controlled border security? Border matters should be treated as issues of national security. I would understand the necessity of allowing in those needing to flee murderous regimes, such as Hitler’s during World War II, but what is currently happening doesn’t fit that narrative. Economic sanctions, such as freezing foreign aid to countries exploiting the situation, ought to be an option.
We may be a nation of immigrants, but embracing and even promoting illegal immigration without knowing who has COVID-19 or a criminal record is irresponsible. It also assumes hardworking taxpayers wish to go along with the dangerous idea.
If this administration keeps lowering the standards that allows us some level of civility, all we can do watch chaos overrun us like a runaway train.
GREG RALEIGH
Washington
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