Dear Editor,

“President Biden has the southern border situation under control,” says Nancy Pelosi. After four years of a Democrat controlled Congress led by Pelosi standing in the way of any attempt to secure the border and help fix America’s immigration system, they have created this crisis.

Our new president spent the entire campaign and before encouraging “migrants” to come, to surge the border. We see images of “migrants” with “Biden let me in” shirts. The Border Patrol reported in February 100,000 apprehensions on the southern border. The DHS Secretary recently reported 4,500 to 6,000 encounters a day, more than in the last 20 years. It is estimated by that department that for every apprehension two people make it thru, I will let you do the math and come up with an annual figure. Many of these people are COVID-19 positive and that is when they bother testing. 14,000 “unaccompanied children” are being held in the very same facilities many of your readers excoriated President Trump for using. Understand that these are not toddlers, they are for the most part 15-17 years olds, many of whom will go on to fill the ranks of violent gangs such as MS-13 and Latin Kings. The ones that are not have been left by their parents (or someone) to find their way across, a new tactic in human trafficking. 3,000 of these “migrants” will be housed indefinitely in Dallas at a convention center. It is unclear yet if they will be free to come and go as they please. A news story today reported that 1,200 will be housed in hotels for three months at a cost 86,000,000 dollars. President Biden’s executive order to halt construction of border security measures has aided the coyotes in their efforts to bring people across by stopping the construction arbitrarily.

In his rush to try and erase any and all things the former president instituted, Biden has put our nation at great risk on several fronts. The people handling him have a plan, but it surely is not for the security of our nation or in the best interests of most America’s citizens.

Linc Sample

Boothbay Harbor