Trump right to enforce immigration law
There is a lot of passionate criticism of President Donald Trump for enforcing laws that he is sworn to uphold.
When a perpetrator commits a crime in Beaufort County the criminal goes to jail regardless of the fact that he/she may have five children at home. Who should be blamed for the separation? Should we blame our great local police for enforcing the law? Only the most extreme liberal would blame the police for enforcing the law as opposed to blaming the criminal for breaking the law in the first place.
The liberal press has found a way to whip up criticism of Trump by misplacing blame for the separation of children from their parents at our southern border. How about blaming the child’s parents who broke the law or the past Congress that created the law?
The U.S. will continue to be a magnet to draw migrants from all over the world as long as the U.S. provides numerous welfare programs with lots of “free stuff” awaiting their arrival. The migration will end quickly when migrants learn that they will be turned around at the border.
There are legal ways to enter our country. Legal guest workers should always be welcome. Many of the illegals with no means of support wind up living in squalor. The homeless mess in the “sanctuary city” of San Francisco is just one example.
There are lots of opportunities for us to help less fortunate people without destroying our country by opening our borders to uncontrolled migration.
Sam Chesnutt
St. Helena Island
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