‘Leader’ of the free world makes a mockery of protocol and decency

SIR, ‘We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents’ – so says President Trump via Twitter

How many offensive comments can a President make in one tweet. If we examine this statement, sentence by sentence, we can see some concerning words, not all of them grammatically correct either.

‘We cannot allow all of these people to invade our country.’ The leader of the free world and the Commander-in-Chief of the military should know that invasions are normally armed events with the support of their country, not escapes into captive environment.

‘When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came.’ No government has the right to remove people without at least determining if they are genuine refugees or have other valid reasons for entering the country by unofficial means. The suggestion of no judges or courts should cause uproar in the legal world, as cases involving laws - broken or not, should be decided through the legal system and not by a bureaucrat or even a border guard. Bringing them back is not even grammatically correct, much less legally or morally valid.

‘Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order’ No! its misuse or abandonment for political purposes is the mockery of the welcoming country of America with its high moral ground.

‘Most children come without parents,’ Although few detailed statistics are available, this seems manifestly incorrect from any news reports and vision of the people arriving. Parents would not send their children into the ‘wilderness’ without support, protection and hope.

It’s time for the legal system to not only call this out but to prevent the bypassing of legally accepted protocols.

Sincerely,

Dennis Fitzgerald, Melbourne, Australia.