<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">More info on the border situation:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/18/child-migrants-us-mexico-border-what-happening-and-why/4721672001/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/18/child-migrants-us-mexico-border-what-happening-and-why/4721672001/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:20px">For now, Mr. Biden has left in place a Trump-era pandemic emergency rule that empowers agents to rapidly turn away most migrants other than unaccompanied minors without providing them the chance to have their asylum claims heard.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/us/politics/biden-immigration.html?searchResultPosition=4">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/us/politics/biden-immigration.html?searchResultPosition=4</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:20px"><br></span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA</font></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:40 AM Roger Hayes <<a href="mailto:rhayesmoscowid@gmail.com">rhayesmoscowid@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Letter to the editor...</div><div dir="ltr">I am a second generation American. Well, at least on my mother's side of the family. On my father's side it is a bit less clear. I suspect that his family fled Ireland during the horrible potato famine in the 1840's, 1850's. In any case, both sides left their homelands to escape extreme poverty and possibly violence there. I marvel at the bravery it took and the intelligence it required to make the long journey to America to make a better life for themselves. When they got to America they were not necessarily greeted by open arms and changed the family names to sound more "American." They found jobs that a lot of "landed" people didn't want to do. Dirty, and dangerous jobs. And they sent their kids to school and some off to college. My grandmother could not speak English. My cousin, who incidentally helped design the lenses that went into space and the moon and who was a professor at UCLA, well, his father could not speak a word of English. But they made a life of it here and helped this nation become what it is today.<div>In travels to Central America I have seen poverty and violence that is beyond description and human despair. No wonder people, our brothers, sisters, and children try to escape to America. And frankly the United States is no innocent actor in much of this. </div><div>We need to recognize that many of these immigrants pick our food, roof our houses in sweltering heat, work in terrible conditions in slaughterhouses and do jobs that no "American" would want to do. It's all in an effort to realize a better life for themselves and their children. No more detention facilities. No more deportations. No more hatred. Isn't that what America is all about?</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 9:37 AM Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">. . . perhaps Neil Diamond expressed it best . . .</span><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Immigration/Coming_to_America.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Immigration/Coming_to_America.mp3</a></p><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" target="_blank">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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