To spend $5 billion on a “Trump Soviet Wall,” or shall we call it “Trump Berlin Wall,” is absurd. To claim that the several thousand people at our border are all rapists and murderers, is an insult to desperate people who are trying to escape from insufferable conditions and dangers.

It was 80 years ago that the United States prevented thousands of people from entering this country, even those who had the proper paperwork, visas, affidavits, etc. As an example, the ocean liner St. Louis crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1939 to come here with refugees trying to elude the Nazi murderers. First Cuba, then the US denied them entry, and the ship had to return to Europe. Several of the passengers did not survive the Holocaust.

Let us not repeat our sins. Let us hire more people to interview the applicants, and if they are deemed to be in imminent danger in their homeland, they should be granted asylum.

President Trump is wrong when he says that all illegal immigrants come over the border. There are thousands of visitors who come by plane with proper visitor papers, and simply stay. The same applies to foreign students who remain after their visas have expired.

The government has no idea who or where these people are. There is no system in place for tracking them. If you do not want these undocumented people, then come up with a workable plan, but don’t just insult a group of helpless people. It is time to atone.

Reni Schustermann


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