To the Editor:

Police drenched with buckets of water in New York, anti-police chanting as police attempt to remove a criminal held up in a house in Pennsylvania, an ICE office is shot up in Texas. I could go on and on about the recent acts of lawlessness towards law enforcement. It looks like the public has picked up on the lawlessness being allowed at our southern border. Migrants bust over our borders into our country, march up to officials, claim asylum and soon are released to go anywhere in the country with a promise to appear in court at some later date.  

True asylum seekers file in the first free country they enter so moving through Mexico to claim asylum is also against the law. Most never show up for their court dates but have made themselves at home illegally in our country. Never mind that our hospitals, schools and welfare systems are overburdened and that illegals are costing millions of taxpayer dollars. Many who have been ordered by the courts to leave the country pay no attention and defiantly stay right here. It is no wonder that some in our country take the allowed lawlessness to be an invitation to defy and break the law ... and hopefully get away with it.

The shame is that busting through our borders illegally is an example to others who now get the idea that acts against our laws and law enforcement must be OK. Illegal migrants are not being held accountable for their lawless entry into our country. President Trump is working daily, ever since he took office, to secure our borders, to deport those who are here without documentation or who have been ordered to leave, to halt thousands marching to the U.S. from Central American countries He has found legal monies to fund building the wall.  He has ordered ICE to find and deport those who have been ordered to leave the country, criminals or MS-13 gang members. But Democrats in Congress fight his secure border solutions and attempts to remove illegals every step of the way. Democrats seem to be okay with lawlessness. The answer to that is to see that Democrats are removed from office in the 2020 election so President Trump has support to permanently secure our borders from illegal entry and hopefully restore lawful behavior in the country.

Judy Milkey

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