Immigrants should adopt our ways
A letter from Kathy Peters in the June 24 Observer-Reporter faulted Donald Trump for being an isolationist and wanting to close America’s borders.
Peters’ grandparents, like millions of other European immigrants, came here to work in a new country that needed population and whose laws offered liberty unknown in most other lands. They didn’t sneak in and there were no welfare handouts.
We really need to return to the immigration formula under the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, which had a quota system based on national origin, or else it’s possible that enough will change in the culture that it could undermine the very principles on which the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, their fortunes and their families in order to build this great country. As recent Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson noted, a Muslim could not take the oath of office to become president of the United States based on the Koran and Muslim law.
The Founding Fathers fought for their freedom, and millions of good people have built and defended this country. Why don’t some of these people in oppressed lands fight to make their own homes better instead of coming here and taking advantage of where we are today and imposing their ideologies on us?
Come here legally, learn our language and adopt our ways or stay where you belong.
Ed Rinkhoff Jr.
Smock