Letter to the editor: Border crisis rages on with no end in sight

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For the past three years, we have seen 12 million-plus illegal migrants invade our country. The border is wide open, as fentanyl continues to pour into our country, killing over 100,000 Americans each and every year, and crime is rampant in our cities and towns. Our country has gone upside down.

By May 2023, it is estimated that there were 12.3 million illegal migrants who had crossed our borders into the U.S., according to the Center for Immigration Studies.

In May 2023, Congress passed H.R. 2 (Secure the Border Act). However, Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who represents the state’s Third Congressional District, voted “no” on H.R. 2.

In September 2023, Congresswoman Perez voted “NO” on the H.R. 5525 (Spending Reduction and Border Security Act).

In March 2024, an illegal migrant Raul Benitez Santana, a Mexican national, here in Washington state, struck a Washington state patrol trooper’s car, killing 27-year-old Trooper Christopher Gadd.

You can read the list of serious crimes committed by illegal migrants, by year, in the U.S. IN an online report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

Recent arrest of an illegal migrant committing serious crimes against children:



A 53-year-old citizen of El Salvador in Tacoma was recently convicted of felony first-degree child molestation, second-degree  child molestation and third-degree rape of a child

A full list of arrests for serious crimes, murder and assaults against children by illegal migrants can be found on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement website.

What really irked me is when Gluesenkamp Perez stated: “No one stays awake at night worrying about the southern border … that’s not what matters to people.” When I saw the video of Marie saying that, I just got so angry.

I keep hearing that we will have another 9/11-type of terrorist attack in America, and that it’s not a matter of if but only a matter of when. At what point do we say enough is enough? We must shut down the border and start mass deportation.

 

Susan Allen

Vader