Immigration letters from America's interior h omeland October 11th ­ October 17th 2016

October 17, 2016

Stephen Sampayan: A vote for Trump is a vote against elitist Clinton

As a second-generation immigrant, I have memories of back-breaking work in produce-packing sheds. Nevertheless, we have thrived. I am now a Ph.D. scientist leading cutting-edge research. The key ingredient that enabled us as immigrants is “equality before the law.”

The Clintons have trashed this founding principle. An obscure sailor, who out of enthusiasm, took “non-public” pictures of an engine room and texted them to his mom is now spending one year in federal prison for leaking classified information. Hillary ordered top staff to strip “top secret” markings from highly sensitive documents so she could use her unsecure personal computer for convenience. These documents are so sensitive that a legally binding non-disclosure oath has to be signed to see them. Some have argued that her practice contributed to the death of people friendly to our country. Yet she pays no penalty. According to the polls, she may become our next president.

This special treatment for the “elites” parallels discrimination because it relegates us non-elites to “you should know your place,” as it did the sailor. To help end this lie, I will be casting my vote against Clinton. To make my vote count, I will be voting for Donald Trump.

Stephen Sampayan, Manteca

http://www.modbee.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article108801202.html

Letters Setting Trump Stories Aside

October 17, 2016

I asked myself if I and my family would be directly impacted, if the stories are true, by Donald Trump's womanizing and misbehavior involving women years ago. Short of any criminal activity, the answer is no.

Then I asked if we would be directly impacted by Hillary Clinton, who believes in open borders, higher taxes, soft law and order, illegal immigration, Obamacare, etc. The answer is yes. Going through this exercise makes my decision who to vote for very simple.

Al Carrano, Manchester

http://www.courant.com/opinion/letters/

Trump stronger on the issues (letter)

October 17, 2016

It seems that the one candidate rather clearly represents a sort of dynastic continuity (Bush I, Clinton I, Bush II, Obama,�) with the ideology of a globalized new world ordeer expressed as free-trade deals costing American jobs, rapid open immigration as corrosive to national identity, and above all a new American global imperialism involving the wanton and illegal destruction of targeted nations (Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc.).

This same candidate has evidently been reckless in the extreme with matters of national security and has used a family foundation as a pay-to-play platform for access to governmental influence.

The other candidate appears brash and outspoken, with a sort of New York street air about him, which offends a lot of people. He has been overwhelmingly mocked and vilified in the corporate media (including the papers to which this letter is addressed), and he has sometimes let his ego get away from him under this unaccustomed baptism of fire.

But he is no globalist. And he addresses directly the three major issues mentioned above: economic devastation by global trade deals, forced mass immigration beyond what a nation can absorb, and the military destruction of some nations and provocation of others following from the Project for a New American Century (look it up).

The prime example of the latter issue is Russia, which has approximately two military bases outside its borders, both in neighboring republics � yet which is encircled by U.S. and NATO military bases, some with cruise missiles. The current U.S. regime is clearly attempting to incite war with Russia, and this candidate says “no,” we can work with Russia. (Would this, by the way, not be welcome to the Russians, all nefarious speculations aside?)

This same candidate supports a strong defensive military, but not a ruthless policy of wasting our young warriors in imperial adventures ironically called nation-building. Oh, and controlled, legal immigration, at a rate the nation can assimilate, with proper vetting of potential terrorists �he supports this as well.

Finally, for Christians who worry that he is not a saint, nor is visibly attached to a church, remember that God rules history and has done so with some pretty blunt instruments. He used the heathen emperor of Persia to restore Israel to Jerusalem. This candidate says he will respect and protect the Christian heritage of this nation. Any potential voter who loves America might want to seriously consider voting for this guy.

Larry Rinehart

Dover Township

http://www.ydr.com/story/opinion/readers/2016/10/17/trump-stronger-issues-letter/92285034/

theintell.com

Why we should back Trump

October 17, 2016

The national union representing ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) employees has for the first time in its history made an endorsement for president, namely Donald Trump.

Do we need any better indication that there is a serious illegal immigration problem on our border with Mexico? Those who deal with it on a daily basis are begging for help, and believe that Trump will give it to them.

They are supporting Trump, and so should America.

Bob Harbison

Langhorne

http://www.theintell.com/opinion/letters/why-we-should-back-trump/article_6f3abfa2-73d6-5a65-8ec5-940d50aebadc.html

October 17, 2016

Trump is for common sense

In regards to the presidential election, it all boils down to common sense.

Until Trump came along we weren’t aware that vast amounts of drugs and illegal aliens were pouring into our country. With yearly drug overdose deaths reaching a record 44,000 people, yes that is 44,000 of our people die every year; why hasn’t the federal government done its job?

In Ohio alone we are losing 50 people every week to drug overdoses! This is a tragedy. This is terrible, this so sad. This shouldn’t be happening, especially when we consider how much money the federal government takes from us and wastes every day on non-essential items or that it gives billions to the very illegal aliens that illegally cross our borders, which is absurd and lacks common sense.

Obama and Clinton have done nothing to stop the problems. In fact common sense tells us that opening the borders like they have done has caused the problems hasn’t it?

We the people have common sense and it is apparent that of the two candidates only Trump has the common sense to see that we are at war and 44,000 casualties every year is not acceptable.

Vote for Trump to secure our borders and to cut off the illegal drugs and illegal aliens. It is the common sense thing to do.

William Hanchosky

Geneva

http://www.starbeacon.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter-to-the-editor/article_9f94c1d8-51d2-546f-bf6a-5494705e58a6.html

Letter: All should be opposed to illegal immigration

Posted: 10/16/16

ALL SHOULD BE OPPOSED TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

In his column (The Reporter, Oct. 12), Thomas Elias admonishes Republicans for not reaching out to California’s Latino voters, especially if it wants to remain a relevant political party in this state. But what Elias REALLY seems to want is for the Republicans to PANDER like the Democrats do.

Elias mentions “immigration” as the Republicans’ stumbling block among Latinos, but omits the all-important qualifier “ILLEGAL.” What Republicans NEED to do is educate the electorate on what illegal immigration is costing this state every year, and the fundamental unfairness of allowing illegals to come here when other law-abiding immigrants go through all the necessary requirements to come here LEGALLY.

This will be a nearly impossible task, as most in the media (including Associated Press, which refuses to call illegal aliens what they are) who are ultra-liberal and label anybody opposed to illegal immigration (or what they misleadingly call “immigration”) as “racist.” And isn’t coming here illegally AGAINST THE LAW? Regardless of whether you were born here or came here legally, or if you are Latino or not, you should be just as opposed to illegal immigration as the REST of us!

Charles D. Roberts, Vacaville

http://www.thereporter.com/article/NG/20161016/NEWS/161019860
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Letters to the editor, October 16

15 October 2016

Flood of illegals

Government agencies and liberals cannot understand that Americans want America to remain America. In 2015, half a million people came to America on visas and never went home. Millions of illegals cross our borders and Homeland Security gives a big yawn.

Obama is bringing in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees. ISIS has announced it is sending terrorists into our country with these refugees. There is no way to “vet” them. Billions of taxpayer dollars will be spent on this Trojan horse.

We have enough problems with second-generation Middle East refugees blowing up and shooting people. Why bring in more? If not one more entered America, the rate these people reproduce would still forever change the demographics of our nation.

A sane-thinking person could figure this out, but Obama is not that smart or he is set on destroying America.

He will never live next door to an illegal or a refugee. He is guaranteed armed security for life along with his fat pension and benefits.

Victims of violence from these refugees or illegals should sue the government and local social service agencies that help settle them in our communities.

We already have a flood of illegals coming across our Texas border. How many more do we have to house, educate and support on welfare programs?

Alice Gore,

Denton

http://www.dentonrc.com/opinion/letters-headlines/20161015-letters-to-the-editor-october-16.ece
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‘Allowing undocumented people to vote ... is a dire threat’

October 15, 2016

DEAR EDITOR:

The information Michelle Malkin shared in her column (“Will illegal foreign voters steal the election?” 10/7/2016) is stunningly appalling horrifying and demoralizing.

Appalling because it is so contrary to the Constitution.

Horrifying because she backs up her content with names and places.

Demoralizing because the Democrats have so easily, with the help of the court system, found a way to “stuff the ballot box” in favor of their candidates. As of now, their top candidate is the worse-than-awful Hillary Clinton.

As Ms. Malkin sharply points out, allowing undocumented people (illegals) to vote in this country as patriots know and cherish it, is a dire threat.

One has to shudder at the idea of standing in line to cast his/her ballot with folks who don’t speak English, are in this country as lawbreakers, and don’t begin to understand important issues. In their hands might well be a sample ballot marked for them by a professional political “pusher.”

The situation makes me think of “Animal Farm.” The pigs delude the other animals into believing that life will be dandy if they just do as they’re told.

Thus, the pigs become the ruling class.

America was never meant to have a ruling class, but the Dems apparently think that notion is laughable.

Melissa B. Anderson

Marietta

http://www.mdjonline.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/allowing-undocumented-people-to-vote-is-a-dire-threat/article_c10d8900-934f-11e6-8879-dbd61a22d1d5.html
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Support Americanism, not globalism -- Mike Martino

October 15, 2016

Wisconsin has lost more than 60,000 manufacturing jobs since the North American Free Trade Agreement was enacted in 1994.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has admitted by the end of each day 20 veterans will commit suicide, many of them waiting for appointments at a VA Hospital. Yet illegal immigrants can get immediate health care without waiting in line.

We've sent cash to Iran and destabilized Libya, Iraq and Syria. ISIS is bringing terrorism to our shores. And we’re told not to use the words "radical Islam.

Our flag is being disrespected by those who never served.

Trump released a list of his 41 veterans groups that identified donations of $5.6 million to veterans. Hillary Clinton's combined donations were only $70,000.

No more lost jobs. Stop the drugs from Mexico. No more veteran suicides. No to Trans-Pacific Partnership. No to professional politicians who broke our trust, and no to dishonesty from the Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine ticket, which is promising anything to get our votes.

Vote for Trump. Americanism over globalism, We have suffered enough.

Mike Martino, Fort McCoy

http://host.madison.com/wsj/opinion/mailbag/support-americanism-not-globalism----mike-martino/article_e5800b8a-66c5-5a65-9cc5-b1ee70ddfcc0.html
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October 15, 2016

Obama’s progress?

I get sick to my stomach when I hear Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama being outraged over the Donald Trump tape.

Their self-righteous indignation isn’t fooling anyone.

While I’m at it, President Obama’s latest tirade about losing progress if Trump wins puzzles me.

What progress is he referring to? The disastrous deal he made with Iran, giving billions of dollars to an arch enemy or creating an atmosphere where our enemies don’t respect us, our allies don’t trust us. ISIS is getting stronger, we have no control over our borders, illegal immigration is rampant, our racial issues are worse than ever � and these are just a few of the things he calls “�progress.”

Mary Bastek, Aventura

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article108412957.html
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Cheer: Trump ‘offering to stand up for you’

October 15, 2016

Cherie Weeks of Greentown sends this Cheer for Donald Trump’s candidacy for president:

“After reading the op-ed by Kent Blacklidge, I was encouraged to write a follow-up. I was encouraged because being a conservative all of my life, and having the liberal media’s ideology crammed down my throat all of my life, and being subjected to the far left’s holier-than-thou facade all of my life, and watching conservatives being ostracized all of my life by both of these entities, it’s always refreshing to hear or read a voice of reason!

“My husband and I are for Donald Trump, not because of what he’s done or said in the past, but what he’s doing today and wants to do for the future of our country. Finally there’s someone who is willing to leave the lap of luxury and jump headlong into the seedy world of politics, spend $100 million out of his own pocket and fight for my principles, knowing full well that his past would be held against him.

“I ask you seriously, how many candidates like that have any of us ever seen in our lifetimes? A candidate who is not perfect (and we’ve sure seen a lot of those) but admits that he’s walked the walk and talked the talk in the big-business world and has learned its corruption firsthand. A candidate who from this experience wants to fix our tax structure. A candidate who has created more jobs for men, women, blacks, whites, and Mexicans than most people could have time to think about in one lifetime.

“A candidate who is willing to speak out for the protection of the sovereignty of our country. A candidate who is not afraid to put the safety of our country and citizens before being politically correct (which, incidentally, is the brainchild of liberal thinkers of the far left). A candidate who knows that a society with out the right to bear arms is easily overthrown. A candidate who is willing to work to create higher paying jobs so that people can work one job instead of the two low-paying ones as is common in today’s economy.

“A candidate who understands that religious freedom is supposed to be for Christians too. A candidate who understands that depleting the tax base by shoving as many people as possible into government jobs instead of private-sector jobs will end up in a bankrupt government. A candidate who understands that those holding government jobs in higher esteem than private-sector jobs want people beholden to government. A candidate who understands that just as there are radicals within the Christian religion, there are radicals within the Islam religion (the key word in that sentence is ‘within’).

“A candidate who understands that the radicals ‘within’ Islam are out of control. A candidate who understands that if you were to sneak across the Mexican boarder breaking their laws of entry, Mexico would put you in jail, and rightly so. A candidate who understands that we should never encourage immigrants to break our laws by providing sanctuary cities. A candidate who understands that a Hillary Clinton presidency will upset the balance of our Supreme Court for decades.

“A candidate who understands that the far-left liberals in this country are willing to jeopardize our safety for the prospect of increasing their voter base. A candidate who understands that even Hillary Clinton is on record saying just three years ago that we cannot vet the Syrian refugees well enough to identify the radicals that will be among them. A candidate who understands that Bill and Hillary Clinton having worked all their lives in public office on our dime have never created a business nor a company from which they could draw a salary. And lastly, he is a candidate who, as he spoke those words in that bus in 2005, was simultaneously employing hundreds if not thousands of women in good-paying jobs.

“The American people have tolerated and even forgiven many past presidents for their actions of indiscretion while in office. From Roosevelt to Bill Clinton (most of which were in my lifetime) they have committed adultery, used foul language, been accused of rape and sexual assault, lied, and cheated in back-door deals. And yet Donald Trump, many say, is ‘unfit’ to be president! The devil, you say! I’d say he measures up to most all of them pretty well.

“So to you conservatives out there who are filled with indignation toward Donald Trump, the Bible says to us all, ‘there is none righteous, no not one’ (Romans 3:10). Certainly none of us would be fit ‘to cast the first stone’ (John 8:7). If, as an indignant conservative, you stay home or vote for someone other than Trump, just remember when your country is less safe, less conservative, more politically correct, and less tolerant of you and your ideology, there was someone running that was offering to stand up for you.”

http://www.kokomotribune.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/cheer-trump-offering-to-stand-up-for-you/article_c28539a4-9232-11e6-b003-27563754155b.html
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Trump’s immigration plan centered on national security, public safety

Salem  October 14, 2016

Donald Trump, in his campaign for president, identified illegal immigration and the crimes committed by illegal immigrants as significant problems.

Trump has an immigration plan centered on national security and public safety.

Any concerned citizen voter who wants to validate Trump’s stand on illegal immigrant crime can simply go to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons inmates statistics website and add up the most recent numbers on inmate citizenship, which indicate 42,401 prisoners in the federal prison system were foreign nationals.

That’s over 22 percent of the federal prison population. In the federal prison system, there were 28,264 Mexican nationals (66.7 percent of the foreign nationals in federal prisons).

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons breaks down the federal prison population into 13 types of offenses; federal prisons had 15,990 inmates (8.8 percent) incarcerated for immigration crimes.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has two components: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that are at the forefront of enforcing federal immigration law.

Two groups, the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council, the union of ICE officers, and the National Border Patrol Council, the union of CBP Agents, have endorsed Trump for president.

David Olen Cross

Salem

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/opinion/readers/2016/10/11/trumps-immigration-plan-centered-national-security-public-safety/91912718/
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October 14, 2016

Trump’s straightforward talk will get the job done

Git-er-done, Mr Trump!

I like the Trump agenda for America: abolish Obamacare; revise taxes and regulations; control our southern border; deal with illegal immigration; enact pure capitalism, not cronyism; abolish unnecessary government agencies; strengthen the military and take 100 percent care of our veterans; and many other issues.

Change in Washington, D.C., will require harsh measures and straightforward talk, it will require the tearing down of many little fiefdoms built up over the years by some old-timers. Yes, sometimes harsh talk will be needed, and I don’t care how he talks if it gets the job done. I also couldn’t care less about how he talked in private conversation, which was inadvertently taped 11 years ago. A straight-talker is what we’ve needed for a long time in Washington, D.C., Git-er-done, Donald.

Rex Allen, Paso Robles

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article108423262.html
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Trump's words resonate

By Proctor Bush
Aiken, S.C. Friday, Oct. 14, 2016

I am supporting Donald Trump because he is a true American patriot who doesn’t act like a billionaire. He acts like an everyday, regular Joe. His message has resonated with people throughout the United States of America. They feel our government has let them down. Our elected leaders � president, House and Senaate � have not listened to the people they represent.
I like Trump’s stand on issues that will affect the future of our children and grandchildren � such as illegal immigration, health care (Obamacare), refugees, our Second Amendment, poor trade deals, lower taxes for everyone, saving Social Security, restoring law and order, energy independence, freedom for religious expression, eliminating political correctness, reducing our national debt, increasing our national security and appointing Supreme Court justices who will abide by our Constitution.

We want our sovereignty, not open borders, globalism and governance by the United Nations.

History will look favorably on us if Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States.

Proctor Bush

Aiken, S.C.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/letters/2016-10-14/trumps-words-resonate#
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Letter to the editor | Illegals treated better than Americans

Submitted by Readers [October 14, 2016] 22 min ago

If you are in a crowd of people, you could get a cold because you have no idea who might be infected. If you walk down a city street, you don’t know who might have a gun or is a criminal.

We take chances every day with our health and safety. We can prepare for some things if we know what to look for.

There is a heroin epidemic in this country and people are dying. Heroin is being smuggled across our border by illegals, and they are allowed to stay in sanctuary cities from where the heroin is distributed and sold throughout the country.

It is illegal to sell assault rifles in the United States, so where do these guns come from? They are also smuggled in.

This is why we have immigration laws.

The Mexican cartels love liberal Democrats.

Did you know that heroin is used like currency among terrorists? Why is it that liberals are more concern about taking care of people who are in the country illegally than Americans?

If we want to shut down heroin, shut down sanctuary cities.

Ron Marol

Moxham

http://www.tribdem.com/news/editorials/readers_forum/letter-to-the-editor-illegals-treated-better-than-americans/article_1ddbe9a6-9175-11e6-9fde-6f03d9eadd59.html
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Letter: Trump's solid stand on immigration

October 13, 2016

Donald J. Trump in his campaign for president has identified illegal immigration and the crimes committed by illegal immigrants as significant problems facing our country. Trump has an immigration plan centered on national security and public safety.

Any concerned citizen voter who wants to validate Trump’s stand on illegal immigrant crime can simply go to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons inmates statistics website and add up the most recent numbers on inmate citizenship that indicate 42,401 prisoners in the federal prison system were foreign nationals; that’s more than 22 percent of the federal prison population. In the federal prison system, 28,264 Mexican nationals were incarcerated; they were 66.7 percent of the foreign nationals in federal prisons.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons breaks down the federal prison population into 13 types of offenses: Federal prisons had 15,990 inmates, 8.8 percent, incarcerated for immigration crimes.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has two components, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the forefront of enforcing federal immigration law.

Two groups, the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council, the union of ICE officers, and the National Border Patrol Council, the union of CBP agents, have endorsed Trump for president.

David Olen Cross

Salem (Oct. 5)

http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letter-trump-s-solid-stand-on-immigration/article_247488a3-4ca9-5cb7-9908-f8feeeb468a6.html
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October 13, 2016

LETTER: Immigration: Trump versus Clinton

To the Editor:

Perhaps no issue separates the two major presidential candidates more than immigration. To complicate the challenge facing voters, this vital issue is weakly reported. Debate is shallow and uninformed. The result, in too many cases, is a public “voting blind” on this make-or-break issue.

But Americans, knowingly or not, will choose from two very different sets of policies. In his in-depth August 31 Phoenix speech on immigration policy, Trump set out his 10-point immigration agenda. In skeleton form, these are:

1) Build a wall along the southern border.

2) End catch-and-release.

3) Zero tolerance for criminal aliens.

4) Block funding for sanctuary cities.

5) Cancel unconstitutional executive orders and enforce all immigration laws.

6) Suspend the issuance of visas to any place where adequate screening cannot occur.

7) Ensure that other countries take their people back when we order them deported.

8) Complete a biometric entry-exit visa tracking system.

9) Turn off the jobs and benefits magnet.

10) Reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and its workers.

Transcripts and video are online. Read or view for details. I will comment here only on the two candidates’ positions on No. 5, President Obama’s executive amnesties.

In 2012, President Obama launched Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. DACA told illegal immigrants who claim to have illegally entered the U. S. before the age of 16 that they need not fear deportation. Perhaps it was a coincidence. Within two years, unaccompanied minors from Central America were surging over the U. S. border.

In 2014, President Obama began Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA). DAPA send another message to illegal immigrants: Have a baby on U. S. soil, end deportation worries. The Supreme Court, however, deadlocked 4-4 on the constitutionality of DAPA. This forestalled DAPA’s implementation. One more Democrat-appointed Supreme Court judge would tip the balance in favor of DAPA. Hillary Clinton would expand DACA and DAPA.

Voters will decide on the Obama executive amnesties and the other nine points in the Trump Phoenix speech. Every point reveals stark differences. All ten deserve your scrutiny.

Tom Shuford

Lenoir, N.C.

http://ansonrecord.com/opinion/letters/3586/letter-immigration-trump-versus-clinton
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Letters to the editor:

12 October 2016

Trump’s immigration plan centers on security and public safety

Donald J. Trump in his campaign for president of the United States of America has identified illegal immigration and the crimes committed by illegal immigrants as significant problems facing our country. Trump has an immigration plan centered on national security and public safety.

Any concerned citizen voter who wants to validate Trump’s stand on illegal immigrant crime can simply go to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate statistics website and add up the most recent numbers on inmate citizenship that indicate 42,401 prisoners in the federal prison system were foreign nationals. That’s over 22 percent of the federal prison population. In the federal prison system there were 28,264 Mexican nationals incarcerated. They were 66.7 percent of the foreign nationals in federal prisons.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons breaks down the federal prison population into 13 types of offenses: Federal prisons had 15,990 inmates - 8.8 percent - incarcerated for immigratiation crimes.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has two components, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that are at the forefront of enforcing federal immigration law.

Two groups, the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council, the union of ICE officers, and the National Border Patrol Council, the union of CBP Agents, have endorsed Donald J. Trump for president of the United States of America.

David Olen Cross

Salem

http://www.pamplinmedia.com/wbi/153-opinion/326864-206644-letters-to-the-editor-council-president-urges-support-of-mayor-kathy-figley-in-upcoming-election
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October 11, 2016

They broke the law entering the U.S. the wrong way - period

Re “Trump plan for undocumented immigrants leaves out mercy” letter by Chick Byrd.

I take exception to that letter and suggest we begin with leaving political correctness out of the article. He is referring to undocumented immigrants. He believes the U. S. gives no mercy. Mercy is defined by “kind or forgiving treatment of someone who could have been treated harshly.”

I will remind Mr. Byrd that entering the U. S. is against Federal Law, Section 1325 in Title 8 of the U. S. Code. This law provides for a fine, imprisonment or both. First offense is 6 months in jail and 2 years in jail for subsequent offense. Both also can carry a fine.

When do you recall anyone going to jail for coming to the U. S. illegally? Does this somehow fall under the heading of mercy? They do not go to jail, rather some of them are targeted for deportation and the others roam free collecting benefits from the government.

Several years ago, the government of Yucatan produced a handbook and CD about crossing the U.S./Mexico border. The guide told undocumented immigrants where to find free healthcare and enroll their children in public schools and send money back to Mexico. Many cities within the U. S. became sanctuary cities, which instructed their law enforcement not to cooperate with the federal government when they became aware of undocumented immigrants.

Many of these sanctuary cities are struggling with the debt this has created. Not to worry; it is tax money and tax increases are coming.

I fully support immigration as long as it is done by the law. For the bleeding hearts in the U. S., I suggest you look at the balance sheet in these towns, along with the additional expenses these undocumented immigrants have created for all taxpayers.

Bryson Preston, Little River

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article107462542.html
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Letters to the Editor

Letter: McHenry has right take on immigration issue

9:28 a.m. EDT October 11, 2016

Given the recent state of affairs in this country, immigration will assuredly remain a hot-button issue in the upcoming election. Especially considering our porous borders have all but invited the flow of illegal immigrants into America under the Obama administration. But while illegal immigration often receives attention for the threat it poses to our national security, and rightfully so, the economic impact that it has on our country should not be overlooked.

One person who is aware of this Congressman Patrick McHenry. He sponsored the “No Free Rides Act,” which would ban immigrants who came here illegally from receiving an earned income tax credit.

A fiscally responsible representative who protects the best interests of the honest hard-working taxpayers over the wasteful spending in Washington, Congressman McHenry will fight to make sure that those who break the law will not be rewarded for it with your money. That’s why I plan to vote to re-elect Patrick McHenry for Congress, and I hope you will join me.

Jeff Lominac, Conover

http://www.citizen-times.com/story/opinion/readers/2016/10/11/letter-mchenry-right-take-immigration-issue/91888958/

The Courier
FINDLAY - HANCOCK COUNTY - NORTHWESTERN OHIO

 Tue. Oct 11th, 2016 By: The Courier

HILLARY IS THE DANGEROUS ONE

As a French immigrant, I would like to tell my story.

I came here legally in 1973 through marriage and learned the English language. In 1985, I became a legal citizen of the U.S.

I am for law and order and support Donald Trump’s stance on legal immigration.

When I came to this country 43 years ago, America was an English-speaking country. But for past decade, Spanish was added to accommodate illegals from Mexico.

This is America, so why should the immigrants be excused from learning English when English is the language of our country?

Illegal immigrants get food stamps, living expenses, and housing.

Currently, a U.S. citizen that makes a dollar over the poverty level gets no help.

In 1961, the Muslims from Algeria said they were going to take over France. I had a singing career in Paris at this time and my dad ordered me to come back home to northern France.

Since 2003, you have to look for the French in France because so many Muslims immigrated here.

They do not become part of the community because they do not want to obey French laws.

They live and take over entire communities, roam in gangs, burn cars, kill people, and even the police stay away from their communities. Muslims get benefits before the French people.

This is why I believe that we need Trump’s leadership, and not Clinton’s, who plans to destroy and overrun this country with illegal immigrants, not only from Mexico but Muslim countries as well.

One only needs to look as far as Dearborn, Michigan to see the dangers of a Muslim community. Americans, wake up!

Look at what is happening in France now. This is just the beginning. I have lived to see this happen in France and now am experiencing the same thing happening to my current country, the U.S.

Trump needs to be elected or our country will be brought down by Hillary and her immigration, tax policies of taxing the middle class, and government restrictions.

She is the one who is very dangerous and unfit to be president.

Nadine Rader

rural Findlay

http://thecourier.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2016/10/11/letters-to-the-editor-10-11-16/