No, Mr. Huppke, caravan not gone
Columnist Rex Huppke (Times commentary, Nov. 20) is either the least informed person on Earth or is attempting to misinform the uninformed left-wing.
He writes about the disappearance of the caravan and how the right has not spoken about it since Election Day. He is wrong.
Sean, Rush and Tucker and other Fox News personnel and the president have repeatedly talked about the first, second and third waves of immigrants. More than 3,000 of these have flooded into Tijuana, Mexico. The residents of Tijuana are demanding they leave due to crime, health problems and clashes with local police.
The Department of Homeland Security has identified at least 500 known criminals and MS-13 members, plus foreigners, embedded in the caravans. Tijuana is asking the federal government for $4 million to manage the problem.
Mr. Huppke would like us to believe George Soros has made no contributions, yet by indirect means his Open Society Foundation has given $4.5 million to the National Immigration Forum funding the caravans.
Mr. Huppke, before you write, perhaps you should do some research. You can't base your writing by relying only on left-wing MSM news sources.
Kent C. Fosha Sr., LaFayette, Ga.
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Tear gas response not appreciated
This morning I was overwhelmed by despair looking at a picture in The New York Times of a woman and her two preschool-aged daughters seeking asylum, trying to run away from tear gas unleashed on them by American soldiers at America's Southern border.
This is not the America I have known and loved for 81 years. It is instead hell, ruled by a mentally, intellectually and developmentally challenged president who, in Nazi-like rallies, has filled ignorant and underprivileged people with hate toward America and loyalty toward him.
His primary goal seems to be to isolate America from the community of nations, as he is isolated. Of course, God's truth and justice are continuously working in human hearts to turn the world right side up, but the human heart is tragically slow.
God bless America.
Faye Walter, Sewanee, Tenn.
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'Enemy of the people' label is outrageous
The New York Times, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN have been called "fake news" and "enemies of the people." Though the phrase traces back to the Roman Empire, in the 20th century it has been used by Mao of China, Franco of Spain, Hitler of Germany, Mussolini of Italy and Stalin of the USSR.
All have been totalitarian dictators. All suspended a free press as an enemy of the people.
Mussolini said controlling the press was to protect the people from "lies."
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and of the press. Criticism of the president is allowed.
George Mason wrote, "The freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments."
George Washington wrote, "If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter ... reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
In the 1930s, people said to pay no attention to Hitler. He did not mean it, it was only politics. He would never do those things.
Until he did.
Sherman Gibbs, LaFayette, Ga.