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To the editor:
I know I have written letters before about the southern border and the current way it is being secured, but I have to write more about the situation that exists.
It has just been reported on the news that a juvenile was caught with fentanyl strapped around his waist. He was and American citizen. I don't care what his age is, he should be prosecuted as an adult and put away for a long time.
Also a woman with fentanyl pills inside one of her body cavities was caught by the dogs. She, too, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and given the stiffest sentence possible.
This drug is killing tens of thousands of people every year. Everyone caught smuggling drugs should be made an example of in as severe a way as possible until no one wants to take the risk to do it.
The drugs coming across the southern border are extremely high now because of this administration's open border policies. They can't possibly be that stupid as to think that what they are doing is good for this nation. It has to be done on purpose. The Democrats think that they can let millions of illegals into this country, figure out a way to make them citizens and have them be so grateful to the Democratic Party that they will always vote Democrat. It is nothing more than an power grab and they don't care how much they hurt the country or the people they are drawing in by their open border policies.
They hurt the illegals by the terrible things that happen to many of them during their migration, such as children and sometimes adults abandoned by the cartels that are making millions of dollars smuggling them across. Some are sexually abused or trafficked. It has been reported that girls as young as 11 or 12 years of age are pregnant and birth at border town hospitals.
The security of the nation is hurt by terrorists sneaking across the open border. The Border Patrol catches some of them but not all of them. The same goes for criminal gang members coming across. The cartels use the illegals as decoys to occupy the Border Patrol while they smuggle the drugs across somewhere else. The drugs, especially fentanyl, are killing Americans.
Ranchers along the border have their outbuildings and sometimes their homes broken into by illegals not caught by the Border Patrol, which is spending more and more of its time processing illegals who give themselves up. They have their fences broken down or cut, their animals scattered, crops trampled and destroyed. In addition to all of this, they have their land covered in trash that the illegals unload on their property. It's too bad that these things don't happen to the Democrats that support the open border policies. Maybe then, they would have a change of heart.
It is time to stop these policies, finish the wall instead of having materials wasting away in piles and go back to all the policies put in place by Trump. That border policy was working for the U.S. better than anything else in my lifetime and I have been around for 76 years.
Stephen E. Sellers
Lewistown