Letters

There seems to be no end to the rationalizations for excusing the mass invasion of foreign nationals who crossed our borders without any authority to do so.

Amy Paradise [“Define the Problem,” Letters, November 20] listed excuses why we should be sympathetic to their plight: economic opportunity; authoritarian, repressive governments; climate change; exposure via the internet to better situations; drug smuggling; U.S. business welcomes their cheap labor; and our historically benevolent history of welcoming them.

Each one, it could be argued, serves our better angels, but Americans seem to discount the cost to scrub each case. Many stand on corners, write letters, and call those tasked with bringing swift order to our chaotic immigration debacle criminals. Worse still, public servants demagogue the issue solely for political advantage, and endorse violence and retaliation as legitimate representations of free speech.

This week, two Democrat leaders actually made a plea to the rank-and-file military and unelected bureaucracy to refuse the performance of “illegal orders.” In wartime, it’s called mutiny and treason. Today, its known as free speech and civil disobedience by our anointed ones.

A subject my virtue-afflicted Democrats seem to have conveniently forgotten: the participation of our beloved migrants in the trafficking of young women and children. Thousands of these truly innocent souls are living among us, still undetected and still suffering the hell they were unwillingly placed in.

The deployment of ICE in sanctuary neighborhoods is the way they may be discovered. Thousands of unaccompanied children were released and are unaccountable for, still to this day. The real crime we face is the rationalizations the apologists have used to obscure the human cost of the Biden administration’s open borders.

Demanding the absurd level of individual governmental attention to immigrant cases that some expect is sadly out of touch. Yes, even our great nation has her limitations. The dangerous reality is, we have absorbed a great many criminals, pedophiles and rapists, foreign terrorists and bad actors.

It is overwhelming our Department of Justice and Homeland Security, and, yes, innocent victims have been detained — but having our own citizens deliberately impede the restoration of order in our cities is dangerously close to the subversion of an orderly society. This anti-ICE and anti-police behavior is led by professional anarchists, funded by America haters who want our experiment in real freedom to fail. When well-meaning people are blind to this, they allow themselves to be pawns in a great propaganda war the haters are waging.

Addressing the illegal immigration problem is a test. One could speculate it may have been the very reason the open border was permitted. If the solutions we turn to are not perfect, neither are we.

Ed Surgan

Westhampton