Migrants deserve to be treated with dignity
The news from our border detention centers is horrific. Desperate people who have gone to unimaginable lengths to seek asylum in our country are being treated worse than we are legally allowed to treat animals. This is the absolute opposite of everything I was ever taught about America.
Immediate action must be taken to drastically improve the conditions at these camps. We need to change how we deal with immigration at our southern border. It is time to remind everyone in our country that there is no law against seeking asylum or trying to immigrate into our country. People who are willing to risk so much and work so hard to get here can only contribute to our country's strength, just as many of our own ancestors did.
All of this must be changed, if not for the simple moral imperative of treating human beings with dignity and human life with value, then for the fact that we endanger the international well-being of our country with this behavior. We give our enemies and extremists more reason to hate us and our allies fewer reasons to respect us.
I urge Sens. Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman and U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty to speak out and act immediately.
Lisa Almond, Columbus
Despite the rhetoric and constant campaigning of Donald Trump, it is impossible for the country to go back in time. We should all embrace the way our country has progressed toward equality of opportunity for all. We should support all Americans in their pursuit of a better life. Scott Stevens, Columbus pesticides have all done permanent damage to our wildlife, waterways, land and human health. We cannot wait any longer as a community to take significant action.
Brian V. Will, Grandview Heights her? I feel sorry for her family, but she had plenty of time to prevent this from happening.
My father’s family were U.S. citizens living in Texas and he was born in Mexico, only because that’s where his mother wanted him to be born, where his ancestors were from. Newly born, he was brought back into the U.S. As a child and an adult, he never stepped foot in Mexico. He could hardly speak English because Spanish was the only language spoken at home. But because he was living in the U.S., he became a U.S. citizen, Yes, he did it!
So please, don’t tell me Edith Espinal didn’t have choices. She had them and didn’t use them. She should have done it legally, like my father and many others have done.
Ilda (Mendiola) Walsh, Powell
this event to central Ohio residents for free. Besides bringing the fun to people Downtown, NBC4 broadcast several hours of live TV coverage of Red, White & Boom, including the finale fireworks, so people who couldn't venture Downtown could feel part of the celebration.
No mention of NBC4 was more than a slight after the station spent decades helping to make Red, White & Boom the premier event it has become for our city. C'mon Dispatch, you are better than this.
Gail Hogan, Columbus