Border wall would help protect country, citizens
To the editor:
In response to both John Krull and Donald Smith in the Jan. 10 Daily Journal, myself and others who voted for President Trump did so because they didn’t want to elect a smooth-talking politician.
Donald Trump was a plain-talking businessman who got things done, and he is doing it. NATO members are starting to pay their “fair share.” We have a treaty with Mexico and Canada and working on one with China, all of which benefit the United States, for once, and many, many other accomplishments.
Tell me how the Democrats are any different than the Republicans when it comes to “their only obligation is to those who voted for them or otherwise supported them.”
As far as the “act of listening,” look at what is happening in our most prestigious universities. Students are not listening to a different view. Ann Coulter and others when invited to speak at a university have had things thrown at them and had to leave the podium. Other speakers of a different viewpoint than being taught by our current professors have been intimidated and harassed, to the point security was called and they had to leave, with even riots protesting the speaker. They are not being given the opportunity to “present the reasons for their actions or policies in ways everyone could understand,” as Krull wrote.
Yes, “our government is supposed to serve and protect the people of this nation, not burden and imperil them,” according to Krull.
Which brings me to the wall on the U.S./Mexico border. Tell me how a wall has become “immoral” now when Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Senator Obama, and then President Obama, and others, all voted to secure our border in 2006 and 2013, at one point funding up to $25 billion to do so. Is it because President Trump promised a wall to the American people, and they are doing everything they can to discredit and even destroy him? Who are the grown-ups here?
MSNBC, CNN and other news media never show the surge of immigrants at our southern border, young males in their 20s hurling rocks at the border agents. These caravans are comprised of 70 to 80 percent young white males. Judicial Watch reports that a Guatemalan official told them “MS-13 gang members have been detained and coyotes (human smugglers) are joining the march with clients who pay to get smuggled into the United States. Guatemalan’s President announced Oct. 11 in the country’s largest newspaper that nearly 100 ISIS terrorists have been apprehended.”
Our border agents who deal with these problems every day say a wall would help them in their perilous duties of protecting our country and its citizens.
Shirley Toney
Franklin
