Immigrants primarily from Mexico and Central American countries are entering our country illegally. Today, migrants from countries such as El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala are camping at our Tijuana, Mexico, border trying to enter. These people are uneducated with low skills who are seeking jobs such as crop pickers, janitors and housekeepers. With these low-paying jobs, they could only live comfortably with welfare checks, food stamps, free medical care, free education for the kids and subsidized housing, all at the expense of our hard-earned taxpayers’ money.

Illegal immigrants are putting an enormous burden on the American people of about $130 billion annually.

We need to protect our sovereignty and national security at our southern border by building our security wall as pursued by President Donald Trump. Our politicians, Republicans and Democrats, past and present, were in support of building this wall, but failed miserably in financing this project. Let’s build this wall now.

Robert Hatakeyama

Salt Lake

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