Letter: Wall needed with immigrants storming the gate

Posted 2/13/19

To the editor:

For those of you who are opposed to a border wall, which is in place to protected the citizens of the United States, I have this to say:  Read your history.  It is an ugly one, …

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Letter: Wall needed with immigrants storming the gate

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To the editor:

For those of you who are opposed to a border wall, which is in place to protected the citizens of the United States, I have this to say:  Read your history.  It is an ugly one, which is why no one ever brings it up. 

I have shelves of books on the subject and I cringe reading them, but is it your history.  I am one quarter Native American, and it was your ancestors that came into this county and annihilated a people whose country this was. 

Pilgrims, pioneers, in their desire for all that this rich land had to offer, decided to make it their own at any cost - the lives of the aborigines, wiping them out and that of their food source, the buffalo.  My ancestors did not have a wall to keep out the pestilence and because of that, full blooded Native Americans are now the minority of the minorities.

Let me be clear, this is not an argument against law abiding immigrants seeking legal entry into this country, for they wait their turn in line and follow the rules and laws.  The argument is about the illegal (I still don't understand how illegal became okay) immigrants storming the gate.  Reminds me of images on the news of mobs of people charging into a Walmart on Thanksgiving night, trampling over people and fighting one another over merchandise. 

As repugnant as that is, it is even worse and scarier to view the images of the caravan marching through Mexico to get to the wall.  Are these the type of people you want living in our neighborhood, near your child's school?

If you chose to do nothing to protect and defend what is now your country, it will not take so much as 100 years before you have no country.  To quote a line from the movie "V For Vendetta": … “the former United States of America …”

Louise Dina

Tiverton

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