Border situation

Regarding “Editorial: Abbott’s Operation Lone Star looks like a payday to cartels,” (Aug. 3): Are you suggesting that the alternative to preventing people from all over the world to illegally enter Texas is to just allow them to enter and stay so that the cartels do not profit from multiple re-entry attempts by people who are sent back through Gov. Greg Abbott’s enforcement of Operation Lone Star?

What Abbott is doing has nothing to do with immigration reform, which the U.S. Congress has failed to address for decades. It merely has to do with our governor and attorney general’s attempts to protect Texas citizens and their property from people who pay cartels thousands of dollars to help them enter, simply because the Biden administration refuses to do its constitutional job. Blaming Abbott for the Biden administration’s lack of action on the southern border to protect U.S. citizens and their property is disingenuous and political, at best, and an outright lie at worst. And that’s just the unauthorized entry issue; there’s also the issue of human trafficking, as well as preventing drugs and terrorists from illegally entering.

Your editorial’s citing the plight of millions of poor “very vulnerable people” just trying to make a better life for themselves completely ignores the fact that what they are doing is against the law in virtually every country in the world and that they have chosen to take that action. Frankly, your editorial insults the intelligence of every U.S. citizen, not just Texans, who — whether they admit it or not — know better.

Hayden Black, Spring

You guys amaze me!

What about President Joe Biden? What has he done? Our situation at the border is so much worse since he took office. I doubt I'll be seeing any editorial about him and how much he has done wrong any time soon.

Scott Aulds, Richmond