{"id":290120,"date":"2021-07-03T01:39:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/letters-to-the-editor-july-3-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-07-03T01:39:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T22:39:47","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-july-3-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/letters-to-the-editor-july-3-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"#Letters to the Editor \u2014 July 3, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Letters to the Editor \u2014 July 3, 2021<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Biden.Harris.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The Issue: Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to the southern border to address surging immigration rates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sending Kamala Harris to El Paso, Texas, to identify the problems at the border is analogous to sending her to the Hamptons to find out what the problems are in New York City (\u201cKamala\u2019s Border-Trip Fiasco,\u201d Editorial, June 26).<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that the Democrats are not interested in solving this major problem. Just think of all the votes that they would lose if they did. What a sad state of affairs. <\/p>\n<p><em>Ed Quinlan<\/em><br \/><em>New Hyde Park<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019 trip to the border was a joke and only done to try to upstage the trip by President Trump. She went nowhere near the areas that are having all the problems with illegals entering the country.<\/p>\n<p>She made ridiculous statements that the administration has made tremendous progress dealing with the crisis. How would she know that if she doesn\u2019t go anywhere near where the crisis exists? It was all political theater.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a woman who is the first female and African American to ever hold the office of vice president. She is falling flat on her face.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jerry Esposito<\/em><br \/><em>Southold<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kamala finally made a drive-thru <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance at the border.<\/p>\n<p>Harris blamed the Trump administration\u2019s policies for the crisis at our southern border. She said: \u201cWe inherited a tough situation.\u201d She lied.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden-Harris administration has repeatedly lied about the crisis at the border and the direct role they have played in creating the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Dick Durbin praised Harris for her leadership on \u201cimmigration reform.\u201d Both Durbin and Harris blamed Congress for the lack of reform.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats miss the big picture: Close the border and enforce our immigration laws that Congress has passed and then start discussing immigration reform.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is thousands of people have illegally crossed into the United States since Biden has taken office.<\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Hart<\/em><br \/><em>Kokomo, Ind.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After landing in El Paso, a full three months after being put in charge of the border crisis, the vice president said: \u201cWe inherited a very tough situation,\u201d and \u201cin five months, we\u2019ve made progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The situation she was handed was the best it\u2019s been in years, thanks to Trump\u2019s \u201cStay in Mexico\u201d policy and the addition of the almost-completed border wall. President Biden ended both im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely after assuming office.<\/p>\n<p>The progress that Kamala claims to have produced is nonexistent. The number of illegals crossing the border and the number that are dying in the process are increasing, not decreasing.<\/p>\n<p>Kamala claims she\u2019s searching for the root causes of the border crisis. It\u2019s clearly staring back at her when she and Biden look at themselves in the mirror.<\/p>\n<p><em>Steve Heitner<\/em><br \/><em>Middle Island<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Harris finally made it to the border \u2014 or did she? She lands at the El Paso airport, six miles from the border, and spends just six hours in the city, which is two miles from the border.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the real crisis at the border is in the Rio Grande Valley, hundreds of miles away. Why didn\u2019t she go there?<\/p>\n<p>Then she met with Rep. Veronica Escobar, who compared El Paso to Ellis Island, where millions of immigrants entered this country legally.<\/p>\n<p>It is time for Harris and Biden to wake up and return all the policies instituted by the Trump administration in order to stop this crisis at our southern border.<\/p>\n<p><em>Richard Ketay<\/em><br \/><em>Newark, NJ<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I agree with the vice president that there has been \u201cextreme progress\u201d on the border.<\/p>\n<p>Things there have gotten progressively worse, and extremely so.<\/p>\n<p>The oath she took upon appointment, to uphold the law, has been breached.<\/p>\n<p>Since when have the laws regarding the deportation of non-citizens who commit crimes in our jurisdiction been repealed?<\/p>\n<p>The dereliction of the Harris-Biden administration is harmful to the nation. <\/p>\n<p><em>James Evans<\/em><br \/><em>Worcester, Mass.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want to weigh in on today\u2019s stories? 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