Dear Editor:
This is a response to misinformation in the letter, "Alarming trends on immigration," published June 26.
Hillary Clinton supports comprehensive immigration reform. Such a reform act was proposed a few years ago by John McCain and Russ Feingold but was abandoned when the Republicans got control of both houses of Congress. She opposed open borders by encouraging deportation of solitary children crossing the border in 2014.
It was not Hillary's policies to pull troops out of Iraq that led to the rise of ISIS. President Bush set the date for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. President Obama tried to get the Iraqi Prime Minister to agree to leaving a residual American force but it was rejected. Instead the U.S. has sent military and other personnel to train troops fighting ISIS and has flown hundreds of missions bombing ISIS targets. ISIS has just been defeated in Fallujah partly as the result of our efforts.
There is no proof that ISIS took over two passport bureaus and gave out 1 million green cards. Undocumented immigrants who come to the U.S. receive schooling and emergency medical care but not welfare or food stamps. They paid $13 billion in payroll taxes in 2013.
A Muslim, Carolyn Walker-Diallo, took an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution, not shariah law as a civil court judge. Huma Abindin, Hillary's assistant, has no ties to the Moslem Brotherhood and is married to a former congressman who is Jewish. Furthermore, there is no proof that Valerie Jarrett, adviser to Obama, is a communist.
Obama didn't release 90,000 convicted illegals. According to vox.com the majority of releases of serious offenders were pursuant to federal court decisions or bond decisions.
According to Factcheck.org Obama has released 159 prisoners from GITMO. George Bush released over 500. The recidivism rate of those returning to terrorist activities is 4.9 percent.
The governor of Virginia restored the right to vote to all felons who have been released from supervised probation or parole. Twenty other states already follow the same provisions.
Obama extended Bush's ban on profiling race to religion but there are many exceptions that give law enforcement justification in pursuing leads for terrorists.
Instead of profiling the FBI has established outreach to the Muslim community from all 56 field offices. A Muslim man reported Omar Mateen to the FBI two years before he would commit the Orlando massacre.