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Opinion: Weekend Dialogue — In many ways, xenophobia is bipartisan

File photo/Damian Dovarganes/The Associated Press / Audrey Garcia, 6, joins her family attending an immigrant community vigil lead by CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights) to defend immigrant rights, a day after President Donald Trump has been inaugurated, outside the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.
File photo/Damian Dovarganes/The Associated Press / Audrey Garcia, 6, joins her family attending an immigrant community vigil lead by CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights) to defend immigrant rights, a day after President Donald Trump has been inaugurated, outside the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. File photo/Damian Dovarganes/The Associated Press / Audrey Garcia, 6, joins her family attending an immigrant community vigil lead by CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights) to defend immigrant rights, a day after President Donald Trump has been inaugurated, outside the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.

Welcome to Weekend Dialogue, a weekly column where I will go over some reader feedback with the hopes of creating a constructive back-and-forth between myself, the editor of this page, and you, the reader.

This time, I’m responding to a reader who has taken issue with some of my editorials on immigration.

If you want to send feedback for next week, email me directly at bsessoms@timesfreepress.com.

This feedback has been edited for clarity and brevity. Let’s get into it.

“The sheriff is doing the bidding of dear leader Trump.” “Marsha Blackburn should look inward to fix this country’s problems.” These have the same theme: that immigrants are being unfairly targeted.