If there is an immigration problem in this country, it’s our reluctance to admit that it is a classic case of the chickens coming home to roost, hatched from the eggs laid by the Ronald Reagan administration. If there are any illegals involved, they are those Reagan chose — Ollie North, Alexander Haig and Edwin Meese, to name a few — to manage his paranoid pursuit of perceived “Commies” in Latin American countries. By fomenting multiple civil wars through the support of right-wing paramilitaries, these actions, illegal by any standard of international law, resulted in a demolished societal structure with the dominance of power in the hands of criminal gangs.
Poor, honest people don’t have a chance for a simple, peaceful life. They are desperate for it to the extent that they risk their lives to come here to plead for it. We owe it to them because they are now our children born into the hell that we created. It’s time for us to pay. Whatever President Barack Obama had to say in his speech, I hope he made that clear.
Mike Ansbro
Vancouver