Letter to the editor: Immigration partnership could work

I have a lot of ideas. Sometimes I’m the master of the obvious, and others have thought and written about the same thing. Sometimes, I come up with a good one. I think the following represents a good one.

I raise ideas with our legislators, and I receive responses, probably from staff members, and I understand that we elect them to represent all of us and that they cannot actually consider every individual’s idea. Still, if enough people think an idea is a good one and they all press that idea with the legislator at the same time, something good might happen. It only takes a few to start a movement.

What if we treated Mexico like a friendly nation and worked in partnership with them to fund and operate migration centers on the Mexican side of the border where asylum-seekers and others are collected for entry into the United States? In combination with Mexico, which has the same problem(s) we do, let’s find out why people are coming and try to help the nations of Central America. Why would we want to alienate and make enemies of other nations in our own backyard, or anywhere for that matter?

Let’s get our border secure and also act like the country of immigrants that we are and give a path to citizenship for the “Dreamers” and enforce legal immigration (line jumpers will be returned to country of origin). Let’s get the good hard-working people taking up the jobs we can’t seem to fill with those who are already here.

Timothy J. Kunselman

McCandless