Story on PCUN? grant showed bias

Letter date: 
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Letter publisher: 
Woodburn Independent
Letter author: 
Lyneil Vandermolen
Letter body: 

Your recent article about the $10,000 grant from the Oregon Community Foundation to the farmworkers union (PCUN) (See “$10,000 grant awarded to PCUN Farmworker Service Center” on Page A3 of the Jan. 20 edition) displayed a typical journalistic favouritism toward illegal aliens and an indifference toward citizens.

PCUN is basically a union for illegal aliens. Yet you listed various contacts for those interested in getting services from the OCF without mentioning whether taxpayers are funding this organization.

I think we have a right to know if we are supplying the $8.5 million that the OCF has distributed all over the state.

If we are paying for grants to lawbreakers, I’d rather re-route it to help American homeless youth and veterans. Lawbreakers chose to put themselves in a “vulnerable” position by voluntarily breaking our immigration laws. Our own poor didn’t.