Editor:
I'm sure many of you experienced an awesome day of shopping in Gunnison on Jan. 30. It reminded me of the days of yesteryear when Colorado was what one could consider a beautiful "purple" state before the fall.
My sincere thanks for this go out to that little knot of people occupying space on Main Street who go from one "outrage" to another depending on which issue fills the space on their outrage signs at a given moment.
Are they hurting their friends and neighbors who work and own businesses in our small town by following their international handlers orders for a day of "no-this, and no-that?" Possibly.
Think of this: The previous president opened up the border and proceeded to scatter millions of illegal immigrants throughout our country at our expense. Many of these people were welcomed into particular cities and towns as migrants and/or refugees without showing actual documentation pertaining to that claim. Then those same cities and towns gave these immigrants "sanctuary" or "protected" status without justifiable cause. Now immigration officers must go into neighborhoods searching for these individuals because the leaders of those cities and towns won't cooperate with federal authorities trying to enforce federal immigration laws.
It's simple logic. Local authorities find and detain these illegal immigrants. They temporarily hold them for immigration officials. Then federal officers transfer those individuals into their custody for processing and deportation if warranted.
American citizens should be very anxious about why we have a loud minority and sometimes violent faction in our country, many of whom evidently seek to open up the borders to just about anybody seemingly without concern of the ramifications of that disaster down the road. Or is this simply about raw political power through mass immigration?
Jon Matuszczak
Gunnison
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Imaginethat
Dear Editor,
Jon Matuszczak asks a timely question:
Paraphrased, do we have a loud and sometimes violent faction in our country who, seek to open up the borders to just about anybody, and is this simply about raw political power through mass immigration?
A couple more questions: Do you know, Jon, that a fair percentage of US tomatoes, and other produce, simply rotted in the fields this last growing season owing to a lack of people to pick them?
And, have you ever met anyone who said they'd really like to pursue a career in US agriculture working in the hot sun picking vegetables and fruit? I haven't, and I'm pretty old.
Capitalism, throughout its history, has struggled to fill its worst jobs that happen to be its worst paid job. At one point, capitalists had actual slaves. We had a bloody war to settle the issue of owning actual slaves. Now we have virtual slaves, still doing the worst jobs for the worst pay.
There's a solution to illegal immigration, but no one in the halls of Congress or the White house ceems to want to talk about it Impose SUBSTANTIAL, crippling fines on employers who hire people illegally in our country.
But no one wants to talk about that. I wonder why that is so?
Paul Wayne Forment
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