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Letters: Falling through the cracks (4/18/20)

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Falling through the cracks

Re: “Millions without legal status won’t get checks,” April 13 news story

It is initially not very concerning that persons here illegally are not getting financial aid checks. They are, after all, not citizens. The very fact that we have allowed them to stay in our country without deportation should be more than enough.

We have, in effect, rewarded an illegal action. The fact that they pay taxes is very nice, and I credit those that do pay, and I hope it helps toward eventual citizenship. However, they are not citizens and their lives are currently much better than they would have been had they stayed in their own country.

Yet, this situation brings out an important point regarding our immigration system. Either we follow our laws and make the immigration system work as it should or change the laws to fit the current thoughts and needs regarding immigration.

Allowing two classes of residents in our country is not acceptable, nor is it moral. Isn’t allowing a group of people in our country who are working illegally and constantly at risk to themselves, and in some cases to others, cause for us to reconsider the situation?

William F Hineser, Arvada


Re: “This pandemic will lead to social revolutions,” April 13 commentary 

We are in dire need of a social revolution that levels inequality in this country. An article on the opposite page of the same column, “Millions without legal status won’t get checks,” underscores this disparity between rich and poor, white and black and brown, “legal” and “illegal.” And the article on the same page, “India: Outbreak fanning religious hatred,” tells the story of how a pandemic can be used by unscrupulous leaders to increase racial and religious hatred. I hope we can learn to live from love and not fear, and include all in our response to this scourge—and I mean the scourge of hatred as well as the scourge of the coronavirus. Let’s work toward a peaceful revolution.

Susan Permut, Monument


No good choice in the 2020 election

A staunchly Democratic father became an engineer when corporations still manufactured in the United States. In 1994, the father started to worry when Bill Clinton and Joe Biden worked with Republicans to pass NAFTA — jobs would be off-shored and Americans would be forced to find lower-paying jobs. But he felt secure as a highly paid engineer.

He started to worry again in 1999 when Clinton and Biden worked with Republicans to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signature legislation to reign in the power of Wall Street. But he felt invincible with his good bonuses.

By 2008 the father became alarmed by the housing bubble. Obama and Biden worked with Wall Street to get the Troubled Asset Relief Program for the banks when the bubble burst; Bernie Sanders voted against it.

Then the father got laid off and found that no one would hire an old engineer. It broke the father’s heart to watch the tears streaming down his young son’s face when he announced that they would have to sell their home. He found a job at last as a security guard. The health insurance and deductibles would take 70% of his take-home pay: it was that or food on the table, so they ate.

In 2016 the Democrats sabotaged Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton got the nomination and we got Donald Trump.

And here we are in 2020 with the personable Joseph Biden. My Sophie’s Choice is now Trump or the Democrats who created him.

It is “none of the above.”

Michael McNeil, Mead


Churches could meet safety requirements

Re: “Sunrise gatherings become private services at home,” April 11 news story

I have grave concerns when residents are authorized by the governor’s orders to go into a building full of people to buy recreational marijuana, but they are forbidden from going into a half-empty church to get inspirational motivation.

Freedom of religion and assembly are enshrined in the constitutions of the United States and every state in the union, while possession and use of marijuana is still a crime federally and in most states. What happened here?

More power to pastor William Ingram at Messiah Baptist Church and any other churches still meeting. They just need to implement the same reasonable precautions to protect their attendees that all other open businesses are doing to protect their customers.

Shaun Pearman, Wheat Ridge


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