Letter: Trump is right to stop immigration
A Honduran migrant converses with U.S border agents on the other side of razor wire after they fired tear gas at migrants pressuring to cross into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018. The mayor of Tijuana has declared a humanitarian crisis in his border city and says that he has asked the United Nations for aid to deal with the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants who have arrived in the city. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
President Trump is absolutely right on the border issue. We have tens of thousands of displaced people from the California wildfires and untold other homeless Americans nationally who need rescuing, plus a $21 trillion national debt to boot. The people in the caravan will need food, shelter, clothing and health services, at taxpayers’ expense.
We absolutely need to enforce the border now, more than ever before. Forget an ineffective and expensive fence. All federal judges need to be put on notice that this situation is a national emergency and should not enforce age-old norms and laws that do not apply to today’s world.
Don’t let anybody else, at all, apply for citizenship from our southern border, or all of Central and South America will follow.
Ron Overman, West Valley City
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