To the Editor:

There are a couple of writers to this LTTE that should be hanging their heads in shame. Last week Pat Collins protested that "This is Trump doing what Trump does best---fooling some of the people all the time."  While Kelly Scoles claims "...Trump's personal prejudices, Constitutional indifference, lust for power, personal demons, or human insensibilities."  This week DNI Telsi Gabbard exposed the seditious conspiracy, and probably acts of treason by Obama, Brennon, Clapper, Rice, Karry, Newland, McCab, Lynch. McCord, Johnson, Choseman, Rhodes and other corrupt cohorts who concocted Russiagate and went after President Trump as soon as he won in 2016. They removed the intelligence findings, got together to create a lie, leaked it to the press using the fake Steele Dossier, then corrupted the courts to destroy General Flynn and others. Gabbard brought the evidence and receipts with more to come. Now the party of "I take the 5th" with three so far, refuses to answer any questions. Expect cries and a quibble from their corrupt inside players and media, "It's a conspiracy or they're misrepresenting the facts, we're victims of the Orange Man". But Gabbard has it in hand. Remember, at that time Susan Rice, for a CYA, sent HERSELF an email stating "Everything should be done by the book". That in itself was a dead give away something wasn't right. Worse is that their corruption could have brought us to war with Russia.

Next up, the media's focus on Epstein. So just ignore the treason and corruption, that's so yesterday. Or maybe ICE and a continued threat that our fruit and produce will rot in the fields with no one to harvest. Fear works. But did you know that farm labor uses LESS than 1% of the agricultural work force and has for many decades?  Everything else is getting automated, but there's not a word about the machines available today that can supply most of the farm labor. What? Isn't AI and technology already here? Yes, it is, but the agricultural business doesn't want to eat the cost of machines and maintenance. Cheaper for them to have the taxpayer subsidized human labor. That will change soon. 

For four decades around 35 million legal and illegal immigrants entered this country. Many through temporary visa overstays or our open borders. Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) estimates 14 million entered in Biden's first three years in office. Most lower educated immigrants, which are mostly illegal, concentrate in specific metropolitan locations like the incorporated town of Compton, which in the past was overwhelmingly home to the Black community of all economic classes. But today is less than 26% Black and over 52% illegals. Watts, South Central, San Fernando Valley and communities throughout the country have seen the impact of dislocated lower class citizens forced to move to find homes or jobs and access to the first rung up the ladder to middle class.

 Adding 20 million, where 90% of illegals are renters, drives up the cost of rentals for everyone. CIS analysis indicates a 5% migrant increase is associated with a 12% increase in overall rent when associated with income. Illegal immigration undercuts wages and undermines the incentive to work. sometimes leading to a "death of despair" with drugs, alcohol and a cascading series of harmful consequences. It has displaced our own citizens in janitorial cleaning, maintenance, food preparation and processing, groundskeeping, retail sales and many other industries. But all you hear is lettuce will be $5 a head without illegals. The jobs taken and lost by our citizens are never spoken of and thus treated as though they don't exist. These are the original victims of unfettered immigration. We're told they are jobs Americans won't do. That's NOT TRUE. But the media won't tell you or show when a business gets an illegal immigration raid it often results in long lines of people applying for those jobs. Yes, it happens. 

A Federation for American Immigration (FAIR) 2023 study found the cost of illegals is $182 billion annually offset by $31 billion paid in taxes from 15.5 million illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants do add $321 billion to the GDP but not as tax contributions or benefits to our citizens. Almost all goes to the illegal immigrants themselves in wages spent or sent home as remittances. The illegal households more often than not, use one or more welfare assistance programs, creating over $42 billion in cost. Add $70 billion in education along with $18.5 billion emergency medical and the $11.2 billion in federal medical funding, it becomes apparent the illegals cost much more than they provide in earnings to our country.

Many displaced people became homeless as the problem impacted more towns and neighborhoods. Ask a simple question; were more homes built in those lower income areas which were already built out? No. Grants went to hundreds of nonprofit/NGO's who wasted billions realizing if they fixed the problem, they'd be out of a job. So the powers that be placate the people with "we're trying", look how much we've spent on it.

Who profited? The globalist, politician, the wealthy, greedy business owners, nonprofits/NGO's and anyone who wanted cheaper labor at the expense of others. Social engineers convinced society to believe, 'I'm too smart to be fooled, these poor migrants are the victims of conservatives and we must help' with an attack list in hand of xenophobic, racist, bigoted, nazi, fascist or whatever chosen name for that day. Just keep people in their place. 

Remember the cry for boycotts because China used slave labor to make Niki and Addias sneakers. Nothing changed. China is still using slave labor. Do you hear a peep about Chinese slave labor today? No. Instead you hear the claim of 'victimhood' while gangs riot and rob the shoe stores. Then we're told it's the poor needing shoes. Shoes that now cost hundreds of dollars a pair. The con of social engineering by some very evil people, yet so many admire those same people as virtuous and caring.

When your needs are met and you still feel entitled, be thankful that you live in a country that allows you the opportunity to go for it and work harder to achieve what you want by merit. Today we have far too many living off the sacrifices of past generations while borrowing from future generations through bonds and credit cards to keep a lifestyle they've become accustomed to. Who's willing to sacrifice anything or grateful for what they've been given?  Are we living in the final stages of the Tytler Cycle? History does repeat itself.  Remember we are $37 trillion in debt. 

Jean McLeod

Fillmore