Minnesota echo - will the US pay for a border wall to protect Canada? IDTS

An echo opinion letter about the integrity of immigrants, published in the Minnesota Post-Bulletin news: 

Contrary to Donald Trump’s fear mongering about illegal immigrants pouring into our country, through the southern border, to commit violent crimes and bring in drugs (most of which come in through ports of entry), there are multiple studies, including by the Cato Institute (founded by Charles Koch, a Republican) and the Journal of Criminology, that have shown that undocumented immigrants are considerably less likely to commit crimes than native-born citizens. 

Legal immigrants are even less likely to commit crimes. Furthermore, these studies have shown that states with larger shares of undocumented immigrants tend to have lower crime rates than states with smaller shares.

Yet Donald Trump, who is obsessed with building a wall on the southern border, never talks about what he is going to do to protect us from violent native-born citizens, (and gun violence!) from whom we are in much greater danger.

Perhaps Canada should consider (if they haven’t already) building a wall along their border with the U.S. to keep our violent citizens out of their country and ask the U.S. to pay for it.

Carole Mataya, Rochester Minnesota  

A Minnessota echo - trickle down does not work

Tax cuts for the wealthy don't trickle down- an echo opinion from the Minnessota Post-Bulletin news:

How can anyone believe the U.S. economy is doing so well when 800,000 supposedly well-paid government workers are living paycheck to paycheck and don't have more than $400 in savings? Then we hear 78 percent of Americans are doing less than that.

Just goes to show you that the top 1 to 10 percent have all the dollars, and no wonder people are so unhappy with government. Tax cuts for the wealthy don't trickle down. 

We obviously didn't learn that with Reagan!

Urge the Congress to vote to put money into infrastructure and pay everyone who works a living wage.

Most want to work and not be on welfare. Didn't we learn that after the second World War and the WPA?  From Judy Severson, Kasson, Minnesota