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LETTER: No party has done a good job on immigration

Dennis Wright
Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers, as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum Friday, May 12, 2023, in San Diego. Hundreds of migrants remain waiting between the two walls, many for days. The U.S. entered a new immigration enforcement era Friday, ending a three-year-old asylum restriction and enacting a set of strict new rules that the Biden administration hopes will stabilize the U.S.-Mexico border and push migrants to apply for protections where they are, skipping the dangerous journey north.
Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers, as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum Friday, May 12, 2023, in San Diego. Hundreds of migrants remain waiting between the two walls, many for days. The U.S. entered a new immigration enforcement era Friday, ending a three-year-old asylum restriction and enacting a set of strict new rules that the Biden administration hopes will stabilize the U.S.-Mexico border and push migrants to apply for protections where they are, skipping the dangerous journey north.Gregory Bull/AP

I am getting sick and tired of hearing the Republicans blaming President Joe Biden for the border crisis.  Has he done a poor job? Absolutely! Is he to blame for this mess? No more so than former Presidents Donald Trump, Barack Obama, the two Bushes and Bill Clinton. 

The last president to pass significant immigration legislation was Ronald Reagan. Since then, only minor changes have been made to immigration law.

Neither party has had the backbone to address this difficult and complex issue, which affects many countries around the world. Until both parties quit treating this as a political football and treat it as the serious threat to our security and economy it is, nothing is going to change. 

Dennis Wright

Beaumont