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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Letters to the Editor

Decades of inaction on immigration in Washington fuels migrant crisis

Children are among hundreds of migrants being sheltered at O’Hare International Airport. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

The current immigration mess shouldn’t be placed on the shoulders of Texans or Chicagoans or New Yorkers. All this current transporting of people makes for good nightly news theater, but spreading the pain between states isn’t addressing the problem. This mess has been caused by the inaction of the politicians in Washington for decades. 

The only photo op that will work is to round up all of the immigrants we have collected from the various states and send them to Washington D.C. Hopefully, the sight of tent cities near the steps of the U.S. Capitol would get the attention of the networks and the politicians.

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