To the editor: Legislation professor Karen Musalo must verify her priorities. (“Why Biden’s new border plan is a terrible idea,” Opinion, June 7)
As President Biden precisely famous, two centuries of American democratic custom are on the Nov. 5 poll. Former President Trump’s provocation of a violent mob to interrupt the 2020 electoral course of merely hints on the stakes.
The border is one of some points on which Trump will get traction with voters. Republicans in Congress already declined an affordable bipartisan border invoice as a result of they perceive that in the long term the marketing campaign problem means greater than border coverage. Why can’t Musalo see that?
Biden’s plan exhibits a willingness to make tough, even painful choices to guard the border. That’s essential to many wavering voters.
The current D-Day commemoration ought to remind us that just about 300,000 People died defending freedom and democracy throughout World Battle II. The attainable toll on the border pales compared, however the stakes for the election don’t.
If Biden wins, there will likely be 4 years to get it proper on the border. If he loses, border points will land towards the underside of an extended record of potential calamities.
Daniel Stone, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Final 12 months, a gaggle of Democrats and Republicans in Congress agreed on a border reform invoice, however we by no means bought an opportunity to see it work. Searching for the presidency once more, Trump stopped the invoice lifeless in its tracks for his personal egocentric achieve.
The immigrants who’ve come into our nation since President Biden took workplace have “vastly raised the availability of staff after a U.S. labor scarcity had left many firms unable to fill jobs,” as described in a separate article showing in The Instances’ print version. It went on to say that “immigrant staff have eased the stress on firms to sharply increase wages and cross on the prices to their clients by way of larger costs.”
Extra staff assist decrease inflation. Additionally they pay Social Safety and different payroll taxes.
Aside from Native People, we’re all immigrants. Within the mid-1800s, our nation welcomed a wave of roughly 3 million Germans. Amongst them have been my ancestors who settled in New Mexico. They got here to the U.S. for financial and political causes.
Sound acquainted? Individuals from world wide have come right here and labored exhausting to make America the best nation on this planet.
Native-born People are not producing sufficient youngsters to maintain our economic system for future generations. Now, Republicans need to reduce off our lifeline by stopping immigration.
Anastacio Vigil, Santa Monica
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To the editor: I’m confused.
For years the White Home has claimed there was no disaster on the border and, as president, Biden had no authority to unilaterally change the scenario. Any resolution would require an act of Congress.
Now he sees, as all of us did, there’s a disaster, and he does have the authority to do one thing about it.
Why has he been telling us in a different way for therefore lengthy?
Dan Naber, Santa Ana