Dear Editor,
The mostly liberal media, especially the press, seem fixated on the southern border “crisis” we are currently experiencing. The Dallas Morning News is a perfect example, as last Thursday’s and other issues demonstrate. The crisis is indisputedly genuine; the causes of it, misleadingly printed.
Migrants are not immigrants. Immigrants have an element of legitimacy and purpose; migrants migrate for personal betterment; those on our southern border come here knowing that they will commit a crime to enter the U.S. illegally. I do not blame them for wanting the better life to be found here than that from whence they came, but they are not political refugees escaping a tyrannical government. Their reasons are overwhelmingly financial betterment.
The responsibility for this crisis rests not with the state or federal governments of our country but in the failure of their own. This is very regrettable, but it is not America’s fault, nor is it our duty to fix all the world’s dysfunctional nations’ economies. Many of our socialist congressmen (and congresswomen) have suggested that the U.S. should invest in those countries so that their citizens would not feel the need to head north and suffer a crisis. They should better serve their country by investing in OUR country’s problems first. God knows there are plenty of areas that need help.
The primary duty of the federal government is the safety and welfare of American citizens; it is not to be paramedic for sick nations. If we abolish ICE, abolish the U.S. Border Patrol, and throw open our borders, we become a place instead of a nation of laws. Unlike the liberals I describe, I do not believe that a wage-earner in Texas should subsidize migrants by the millions (they would become millions) simply because their plight is real. We did not cause the problem; we do not perpetuate the problem, and we cannot afford – financially or socially – to try to fix it. We have our own families to take care of.
God Bless America!
El Sellers
Fairfield, Texas
