Wake up, America; Muslim immigration; deportation cost; what’s GOP to change?

Wake up, America!

The current national political contest provides each of us an opportunity to examine our belief systems. No nation has survived after abandoning the fundamental standards of moral and legal justice.

Where are we when we decry that it’s cruel to execute convicted murders while condoning the butchering of innocent lives?

Where are we when our government ignores the law and allows the invasion of our nation by illegal immigrants for political reasons? Those seeking a legal process of immigration must be dismayed or at best feel stupid for obeying the law.

Where are we when we mortgage our children’s future with a debt burden that threatens our financial future and system of government?

It seems that political correctness, self-interest and political posturing now take precedent over the rule of law, morality and downright common sense.

America, please wake up.

— Ken Sapp, North Richland Hills

Muslim immigration

Is it time to stop the immigration of Muslims into the United States? I think it is.

The Muslim world is torn asunder by radical fractions. Muslims are bombing, executing, torturing and beheading other Muslims wantonly as we speak.

These are most perilous times, and although the great majority of Muslims in this country are good citizens, they, too, are at risk. Subversive, terrorist elements of ISIS are infiltrating our borders to establish “cells” across the nation to destabilize our government and replace it with their own.

Critical times require stringent measures. On Dec. 8, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the cessation of naturalization of Germans, Japanese and Italians.

Japanese in America were interned in camps until the end of World War II.

Drastic measures? Yes. But the safety of our nation was paramount. Restricting immigration will make it more difficult for subversive radicals to slip through our borders.

Americanized Muslims should welcome these measures, for they would be considered infidels, punishable by Sharia law the same as Christians, and those of other faiths.

We must use all protective measures now, dire as they may seem, to secure the future of our country.

— Bruce K. Jacobson, Fort Worth

Deportation cost

Donald Trump says he wants to rescind President Obama’s executive actions aimed at allowing as many as 3.7 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S. to remain in the country because of their U.S.-born relatives.

I assume that he means Mexicans, because he doesn’t mention any other group.

Assuming you could find them and there would be no legal challenges, individually or collectively, evicting 1,000 per day for an entire year would eliminate approximately 10 percent of the alleged total.

What would the cost in tax dollars be and how many people would you have to employ to accomplish this nationwide? Trump doesn’t tell us this or much else other than how rich he is.

— Marty Goldsmith, Fort Worth

Maybe a Don

I enjoyed my friend Don Woodard’s Wednesday letter. It seems Don did some research on presidents’ first names.

Lots of Jameses, Johns, a George, a Jimmy, Bill, but no Don. As things look now with the media frenzy over Donald Trump, maybe we’ll have a Don in the White House.

It seems Don Woodard is taken aback by even a president named Barack, but no Don.

Hopefully, we’ll get a Ted, Rick, Mike, maybe even a Don.

— Jack O. Lewis, Haltom City

What’s to change?

I’m amused by Republicans saying how bad things are under President Obama.

Let’s go back to the way things were under the George W. Bush administration.

The stock market was around 7,000. It’s now 17,000-plus. Banks were going broke. They’re now thriving. General Motors and Chrysler were going broke. They’re now selling more cars and can’t build them fast enough.The 2012 Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, said, “Let them go broke.”

Housing starts are at an all-time high. Thousands of new jobs are being created every month. Unemployment decreases each month. More people have insurance than ever before.

What is it that you want to change, Republicans?

— Jack Vaughan, Arlington

This story was originally published August 21, 2015 at 6:47 PM with the headline "Wake up, America; Muslim immigration; deportation cost; what’s GOP to change?."