On the surface, Angie Hinshaw’s letter presents a point many people would wrap their arms around: if any money is to be distributed, give it to Americans first (“Take care of your own first,” Our Readers’ Views, Nov. 23). What she doesn’t point out, conveniently, is that these “border criminals” she refers to have left horrific conditions in their native countries that nobody should have to live under. Be it dictatorships, starvation, squalid living conditions or lack of education, what they are seeking is a better life for their children and themselves.
Separating kids from their parents and then not being able to reunite them is one more of the horrible acts “the previous guy” committed and those kids deserve some form of compensation, but certainly not a “since changed” $450,000, a number which would never pass Congress.
Angie, if the $450,000 has since changed, why do you bring it up? The only reason I see is that it riles up the far right, who are the only people who might buy this drivel.
