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Letter: Don’t blame Trump — and don’t be too eager to let in the immigrants

(Wilfredo Lee | The Associated Press) In this June 1, 2018, file photo, children hold signs during a demonstration in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Miramar, Fla. The Trump administration's move to separate immigrant parents from their children on the U.S.-Mexico border has turned into a full-blown crisis in recent weeks, drawing denunciation from the United Nations, Roman Catholic bishops and countless humanitarian groups.

We are deluged by displays of crying children at our borders, separated from their parents, and as we are told, it is only because of the media-declared demon who sits in the White House.

However, dear friends and neighbors, please take note of the U.S. Constitution, Article I. It is the mandated role of the Congress to set forth laws and rules regarding access to these United States — not the president.

Now, a simple question to all the celebrity sycophants, blubbering academia and tree-hugging, ultra-liberal one-world devotees: How do we pay the cost for millions to be granted access without any regulation, control or vetting? Their housing, clothing, food, education of all these youths, most of whom have difficulty speaking or writing their own native tongue; plus the immediate income to supply other basic needs, transportation, medical care — the list is endless.

The truth, my fellow citizens, including those in the Hollywood hills, the towering apartments in Manhattan and the self-endowed journalistic deity, is you and I. And every other person who works, looking to that day when we hope to retire with some semblance of comfort, however meager.

I may not be a fan of Donald Trump, but why keep banging on him about this growing problem when your vitriol and benumbed rationale should be directed at those 535 dimwits trolling the halls of Congress?

But if I were you, I wouldn’t hold my breath for any resolution.

James F. Oshust, Millcreek