Your Opinion: Dems hypocritical on border security

Harold Horstmann

Lohman

Dear Editor:

I submit the following as my rebuttal to the Chuck and Nancy “American Gothic” show that followed Trump’s Jan. 8, 2019, oval office speech. I refer to a Jan. 8, 2019, article by Alana Mastrangelo: “FLASHBACK: 7 Democrats Who Once Endorsed Border Fence, Tougher Border Security” (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/08/flashback-7-democrats-who-once-endorsed-border-fence-tougher-border-security/).

Barack Obama in 2006: the Secure Fence Act would provide “better fences and better security” and that it would make headway against “the tide of illegal immigration in this country.”

Hillary Clinton: referring to the Secure Fence Act of 2006, “We need to secure our borders, I’m for it, I voted for it, I believe in it.”

Bill Clinton: in his 1995 State of the Union “all Americans” were right to be “disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering (the United States),” adding that illegal aliens “impose burdens on (U.S.) taxpayers.”

Chuck Schumer who also voted in favor of the Secure Fence Act said a few years later in a speech at the Georgetown University Law Center that referring to illegal aliens as “undocumented” is unacceptable. “Illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple,” said Schumer, “If you don’t think it’s illegal, you’re not going to say it. I think it is illegal, and wrong, and we have to change it.”

Dianne Feinstein: “Democrats are solidly behind controlling the border, and we support the border fence,” said Feinstein of the Secure Fence Act of 2006.

Nancy Pelosi: In 2013, then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi referred to border security as a “basic principle,” and urged congress to support legislation that she claimed would secure the U.S. border.

Vice President Joe Biden: “We (President Obama and I) felt so strongly, from the day we took office, for the need for immigration reform,” said Vice President Joe Biden in 2014, who had also voted in favor of the Secure Fence Act when he was a senator.

Where’s our precious constitutionally protected ‘journalists’ when you need them?

God save us from these evil hypocrites who are intent on turning our nation into a Third World country!