Support for Trump

by Jerry Esmay, Stevensville

The last several “Letters to the Editor” pages have been filled with liberal lies and half-truths. The underlying motivation for these writers is TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) – no matter what President Trump does, the liberals will find something wrong with it. The current turmoil over the immigration activities of ICE is an obvious example.

The problems associated with immigration enforcement are a direct result of President Biden and the Democrats. They allowed millions of illegal immigrants to INVADE the United States during Biden’s four years. As I pointed out repeatedly, this was pure treason in my opinion. We were invaded by some people who were looking for a better life, but by not controlling this invasion, we also got unknown numbers of criminals, mentally ill individuals, and potential adversaries. Additionally, our country was flooded with illegal drugs such as Fentanyl which killed hundreds of thousands of our citizens during those four years.

President Trump was elected in large part to stop and correct this invasion. After years of the liberals telling you a lie that the borders were closed when they obviously were not, and then President Biden contending that nothing could be done to stop the invasion until Congress passed legislation, President Trump stopped the invasion within days of taking office.

Newly elected President Trump had also promised to enforce our federal immigration laws and return these illegal aliens to their home countries starting with those who already had criminal records. This is what the ICE and Border Patrol officers are currently doing – enforcing federal immigration law. For state governors and city mayors to publicly declare that they will not cooperate with this enforcement is insurrection, in my opinion. 

Clearly, the liberals were trying to flood the country with liberal voters so they could rule forever. This was again demonstrated this past week when the subject of “Voter ID” came up in Washington, D.C. The Democratic leadership immediately came out in force to block any attempt to pass a bill containing this requirement for voting. Polling statistics clearly show and have shown for years that the vast majority of registered voters approve of the requirement for ID when voting. The ONLY reason you can be against this requirement, in my opinion, is if you want to leave open the possibility for cheating. We are currently required to show an ID for almost everything we do these days from getting government benefits, to driving a car, to flying commercially or buying a sixpack of beer at the local Super 1. I would also argue that if there is someone out there who doesn’t have an ID, then I don’t want them voting since the implication to me is that they probably don’t have a clue as to what is going on in this country.

While I don’t agree with everything President Trump is and has been doing, I certainly am elated with many of the accomplishments he has made during his first year in office:

• stopped several wars across the world including the Gaza Strip war

• stopped Iran’s nuclear program

• convinced the NATO members to increase their military expenditures

• increased our military readiness

• stopped the Global Warming scare

• confronted the drug cartels to include the raid into Venezuela and hitting the boats involved in smuggling

• implemented “tariffs” to level the trade with many other countries

• implemented policies to bring factories back to the USA thus providing more jobs

• increased foreign investment in the USA

• increased economic confidence in our country to where the stock market is at an all-time high. 

I could go on but let me end this letter by fully supporting ICE activities. The “demonstrations” in Minnesota were not simply concerned citizens voicing their concerns. They were highly orchestrated and funded by folks who want our country to fail. Spitting on officers, screaming profanity at officers, threatening the officers and their families with death, sitting up road-blocks and invading a church are not part of peaceful demonstrations. It would be nice if we could return to verbal reasoning rather than threatening rhetoric.