Too many worry about wrong people

The current caravan of asylum-seekers passing through Mexico on their way to the United States has been painted as an “invasion” on par with the siege of Stalingrad.

They are more than 1,000 miles away on foot, which means many will fall by the wayside, while the remainder will be lucky to reach the border by Christmas.

That’s not stopping some people from using them as a blunt object.

Their journey has been cast as a nefarious Democratic way to stuff the ballot box with bogus votes.

If only the Democrats were that organized.

In particular, George Soros, an immigrant and child Holocaust survivor, is being blamed for the insidious plot. According to his critics, Soros has approximately 1 billion people on his secret payroll, including the migrants, who, if they had money, wouldn’t be leaving home.

Oh, for the good old days when Americans would be bored by now which such hyperbole.

No rational person is advocating for America’s border to become a swinging gate, or as gap-toothed as the Cleveland Browns’ current offensive line. But unlike your great-grandparents who came here seeking opportunity, the current Central American asylum-seekers have left home out of hunger and fear of being murdered.

Drugs (purchased and consumed by us), and the ensuing violence and corruption they bring, have rendered their countries inoperable.

The irony: Asylum-seekers are following the law while the president just broke it, telling the military they can shoot any migrants who throw rocks.

Native sons

While we’re worrying about people, most of whom likely won’t reach the border, it seems we have far more to fear from our native sons.

The Anti-Defamation League reports that between 2007 and 2016, 74 percent of all domestic terror-related killings were committed by right-wing extremists.

Twenty-four percent were committed by Islamic extremists and 2 percent were committed by left-wing extremists.

In other words, it wasn’t Haitian refugees who shot up that synagogue in Pittsburgh.

We would do well to concern ourselves with those who have a vested interest in keeping us fighting, starting with the Russians, who’d like nothing better than to see us implode.

The media isn’t immune to criticism, but perhaps it’s time to push back on those who only want affirmation, not information.

Jose Gutierrez

Maybe we need to worry more about those who have no compunction in using race, religion and “otherness” to further their agenda. They’ll tell you all about what could happen if certain people are allowed to emigrate here, but they won’t tell you about Marine Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez, one of the first servicemen to die in Iraq.

Orphaned at 8, Gutierrez came to the United States — illegally — from Guatemala when he was 22. Because authorities thought he was 16, he was able to stay and acquire a Green Card. After a series of foster homes, he landed in a good one in Torrence, Calif., with Marcello and Nora Mosquera, who also were immigrants.

Gutierrez joined the Marines in response to the Sept. 11 attacks. After dying in a tank battle March 21, 2003, he was granted posthumous American citizenship.

There will be those who will point out Gutierrez broke the law. Yes, he did. He more than made up for it.

It takes a special kind of gall to live on land taken from someone else and vilify people who are doing what their own forebears did: Left all they knew behind to find a better life in a new world.