The decision by Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem to terminate protected status of Haitian immigrants, based on her so-called finding that the risk of harm to Haitian citizens no longer justifies such protection, is an outrage.
There is no more dangerous place in the Western Hemisphere than Haiti (outside of being in a small boat in the southern Caribbean).
Stories of gang warfare, starvation, disease and homelessness are routine. How the U.S. should handle this terrible problem is not certain, but to say it is no longer a threat is a gross distortion of the truth.
It is an all-too-common occurrence in an administration that prosecutes its enemies for perjury.
John Countryman, Plantation
Perverse priorities
Our illustrious state attorney general James Uthmeier is once again wasting state resources on a frivolous investigation of something no one cares about.
Recent laws have passed catering to a very small group of conspiracy theorists. The chemtrail law is a good example. Another is the meat substitute ban (which might be a caveat to the beef industry).
Now Uthmeier wants to investigate Campbell’s for possible use of meat substitutes in its soups. This is ridiculous, due to one glaring fact: Cost.
Meat substitute production costs average between $17 and $33 a pound. Real meat, such as ground beef or chicken, averages between $3 and $6 a pound. What company would add that material cost to its product?
This is an obvious waste of time and money.
Who is Uthmeier catering to?
Mike Hundley, West Palm Beach
Taking on the liberals
The complaints (in a recent Sun Sentinel editorial) about a right-wing takeover of education in Florida are incredible, silly and reactionary. Mostly, it is the recent phenomenon of the left receiving any pushback against its decades-long overwhelming dominance of public education for the first time ever.
Years of participation trophies and safe spaces offer no immunity or defense from the reality that nobody gets what they want all the time. For 40 years they have never been told “no” when it comes to any weird social experiment or indoctrination they decide to inflict on impressionable school children.
Also, your editorial stance that guarding against communism is passe and just an old, cold war worry is hypocritical.
The dragon of racism was slain long ago. The only ones keeping it alive are race-hustling “social justice” ambulance chasers. They continue to cynically stoke and exploit a problem that exists only to give them a career. It divides us and creates problems that would otherwise not exist. Shameful.
Mark Hoffman, Pompano Beach
Back to the Gilded Age
Pardons are handed out to guilty criminals, a snub to equal treatment under law. The world sees the U.S. as fallen from its pedestal, its image tarnished. The Trump administration seems indifferent toward historical friendships and alliances. Forget globalization and working together — the goal is purifying our population.
Putin plays Trump like a fiddle. War is waged and peace fails or comes at the expense of fair terms to end it.
The Statue of Liberty no longer stands as an emblem of freedom. The historic East Wing of the White House is demolished without input from the people of our country, as unselfish leadership would offer. The administration mimics Third World nations in its arrogant disrespect for our democratic traditions.
Are we better off today than when Trump first held office? If your answer is yes, my guess is, yours is a gilded world (or is it MAGA, Make America Gilded Again?)
Larry DeRose, Davie
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