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Border crisis and local concern – response from the municipal councilor
In his October 27 letter to the editor, Bill Stevenson asked for clarification on my comments to Carrol Harvey regarding his counterterrorism background when he was appointed to the WP planning board. This subject is a major concern. (See the video of the city council meeting on October 7, youtube.com/watch?v=TwfashnFBzg&t=899s [14:22 -14:54 min] for the replay of comments)
Borders are political boundaries and are vital to every country, state, county, and city government. They define who we are as a people. The scriptures have a lot to say about respecting peoples, nations and borders. See tworiverscc.org/borders-and-immigration-in-the-bible/ for a point of view.
The influx of illegal aliens into our country is destructive for the public good.
We on Council serve our community as elected volunteer representatives and take an oath to support (defend) the Constitutions of the United States and Colorado and the Charter and Ordinances of Woodland Park.
The Constitution is our nation’s governing legal document and carefully defines the limits of the delegated powers of “we the people†to the three branches of government. Congress makes the laws, the executive power enforces those laws, and the judiciary interprets the law.
The people of Colorado, as American citizens, benefit from what is called the Guarantee Clause (Article IV, Section 4): of them against the invasion; and on the enforcement of the legislature, or the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence.
The flood of illegal “undocumented” aliens is an invasion of illegal immigration and is destructive to an orderly society. We are a nation of laws, and the responsibility of the executive branch, the office of the president, is to enforce the laws passed by Congress. Our Congress has passed laws making it illegal to cross our borders without permission, established legal entry criteria, and determined that illegal immigration is a crime, punishable by extradition. “A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation,†President Ronald Reagan said.
It’s only a matter of time and we’ll see the effects on Woodland Park.
Sadly, we have a president who facilitates illegal immigration to our country – both a crime and a violation of his oath. Simply calling them “refugees” does not make them that way. As an executive, it should not make laws, but enforce laws that Congress has passed. According to Tom Homan, former director of ICE and 34-year veteran in law enforcement, 31% of women who enter our country illegally are sexually assaulted, children die and cartels earn millions of dollars a day for handle these illegal people and they kill. our border patrol officers. It is the first responders in our country who are sounding the alarm.
Perhaps we should ask ourselves, “What makes us unique as a people? Is there any value in the fact that we are the nation with the oldest federal constitution of any nation in existence and that our Declaration, Constitution and Bill of Rights occupy a central place in law and the political culture of the United States? Our rule of law has inspired many nations around the world to emulate our form of governance.
Or are we so overwhelmed by managed media, big tech, big pharma, and people who want to control a global “family†that we stop thinking freely for ourselves? The history of our human family is exciting, fascinating to study, and the lessons learned can be applied to our lives today. Knowledge of history is a powerful defense against ignorance.
In conclusion, Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1924 by 323 to 71 votes. “It has become necessary that the United States cease to become an asylum. This act gave America the opportunity to assimilate the influx of immigrants that had arrived. It lasted 40 years.
I am a first generation American. My parents immigrated to the United States after WWII, from Peru and the Philippines. They were able to fulfill their dreams of a better life like many other legal immigrants who come to our shores and are now proud to be Americans.
Robert A. Zuluaga, Woodland Park Councilor, Woodland park
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If we don’t fight climate change
We are a “primitive” race and a “primitive” society. Yes, PRIMITIVE! We think we’re so awesome because we can send people into space. We have mastered something so wonderful, yet we are not yet close to mastering ourselves!
We sit smugly and watch each other as they battle hunger, homelessness, and no medical care. Men, women and children live in fear, while we are safe and warm in our homes. We think it doesn’t affect us.
If we don’t tackle climate change, we will all starve to death along with the millions of people on this planet who are today. If we don’t tackle climate change, we will all be displaced by increased and extreme flooding, forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, electrical storms, volcanic eruptions, drought, increasing force of the earth. wind and sea level rise – of which we are already seeing a lot.
We don’t understand and act as if we care about people currently displaced by climate change, famine, corrupt governments, armies, political entities, drug cartels and what these people face each day. There will be no place to hide; we will all remain emotionally naked under the stars.
We, as a planet, need to develop a heart and a conscience. We need it now!
It will not be climate change that condemns us … we, as a primitive race and society, condemn ourselves!
Johanna stiles, To divide
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Is America a Good Country?
The short answer is yes! ‘ The American people are good people, but we have had bad / weak / foolish leadership over the past 50 years.
If you listen to the radical left, you have to conclude that America is not a good country. They expose our warts, open our blisters, remove scabs and pour salt into our bleeding wounds.
Until recently, the American media exposed most of our faults, informing Americans and foreigners of our many wrongs. The left ignores the fact that we don’t try to hide our failures. We expose our flaws to the world and accept their criticism.
Most importantly, we correct ourselves. Take for example the curse of slavery and racism. With black passion under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and millions of white people, we have overcome this stain on the soul of America.
From the start, most Americans hated slavery and didn’t want it to be part of our foundation. As a colony of Great Britain we had no choice but to continue slavery. It was the law in England and we were obliged to obey that law.
In order to form a united country, we had to compromise on the issue of human bondage, mainly with South Carolina and Georgia.
The Constitutional Convention prohibited the end of the African slave trade until 1808, 20 years after the signing of the Constitution.
It took another 57 years, a civil war and the deaths of 110,000 white men and 20,000 black men to free us from slavery.
The Thirteenth Amendment, ratified by the states on December 6, 1865, abolished slavery “within the United States or in any place under its jurisdiction.” It was not enough! When slavery ended, racism took its place and lasted another 100 years until July 2, 1964, the Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex. or national origin.
Today, black people have ascended to the highest office in the nation, from president to senators, congressmen and governors, to top athletes, academics, entrepreneurs, artists and in all phases, strata and activities of our society. .
The wart of racism has been removed from America’s face.
Keith McKim, Flourishing
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