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Letter: Why won’t Congress act on immigration?

(Eric Gay | The Associated Press) In this Sept. 10, 2014, file photo, detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a detention center for immigrant families, in Karnes City, Texas. The Trump administration stopped using the center to hold parents and children in March 2019. It’s cut back on family detention even as it complains it has to “catch and release” migrant families, many of them Central American parents and children who seek asylum.

(Eric Gay | The Associated Press) In this Sept. 10, 2014, file photo, detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a detention center for immigrant families, in Karnes City, Texas. The Trump administration stopped using the center to hold parents and children in March 2019. It’s cut back on family detention even as it complains it has to “catch and release” migrant families, many of them Central American parents and children who seek asylum.

By  Ron Overman | The Public Forum
 | May 1, 2019, 7:08 a.m.

This dilemma at the United States southern border has gone on long enough. Increased and unchecked immigration is damaging our country in too many ways to mention.

And where are our illustrious senators and representatives in all of this? I scan the newspapers and watch television and the internet every day, and I see no comments or solutions from any of our congressional congregation from Utah.

We need representatives who are willing to take the forefront into passing legislation in Congress that puts strict limits on those wanting to immigrate into the USA, for any reason, especially those seeking asylum.

The legislation should read like this, “Those seeking asylum must first apply for asylum in the U.S. and then return to their own country or wait in Mexico until which time their case in court is to be heard and approved.”

See, congressmen from Utah, I’m not even a lawyer and I can write this. Why can’t you?

Ron Overman, West Valley City

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