Letters Of The Day

there's a slew of letter winners today. enjoy!

U.S. Rep. Steve King would build a 2,000-mile, $680 million, 10-foot high chain-link and razor-wire fence at the Mexican border (Aug. 23 Register). But it would be much less costly to build that fence around Congressman King, Rep. U.S. Tom Tancredo and televangelist Pat Robertson. Vive la fence!

-Paul Jensen, Ogden.

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In U.S. Rep. Steve King's latest fantasy ("King: Fence Off Mexican Border," Aug. 23), installing a $680 million chain-link fence will magically resolve many of our economic and immigration issues.

Show me that young father from small town Iowa struggling to support his family but denied work at the regional packing plant because of a Mexican immigrant. Show me those Iowa women who can't get work at the local manufacturing company because the line positions are all taken by newly arrived Guatemalans. Show me the high school and college grads scrambling in vain to work for companies contracted to landscape our suburban lawns and business parks, or work in the kitchens of our restaurants, only to have those positions given to El Salvadorans.

These Iowans simply don't exist.

King thinks he can hide behind his razor wire in the name of economic and national security, but I find the blatant racism shown by King, his fellow elected officials and his Iowa constituents to be appalling.

-Brian Joens, Manning.

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Most Americans realize there is a problem with immigration policy in the United States. Fortunately, Rep. Steve King has a solution. With a loud voice he has proclaimed a solution from the Zhou Dynasty and the 9th century B.C.: "Let's build a wall." The people of Iowa and the United States need congressmen with more up-to-date ideas than the failed policy of forgotten Chinese dynasties.

-John Cahill, Marshalltown.

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Congressman Steve King has proposed fencing off the Mexican border with the United States. Maybe for starters we could fence off Iowa's 5th District so King could live happily ever after in sheltered bliss.

-Dave Swenson, Ames.

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