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Focus on root cause of immigration problem

While reading recent articles about the immigrant demonstrators I couldn’t help but sympathize with the mostly Hispanic marchers. These demonstrators deserve to have good jobs with decent benefits, access to a good educational system for their children, access to affordable health care, the ability to live in peace without fear and a government that is free of corruption.

The mistake is that they are marching in the wrong place. They should be marching in Mexico City or the capital of their home country. The reason they come here is that all the freedoms and opportunities they want and deserve are not available to them in their home country. We need to get to the root cause of our immigration problem but it’s not here in America — it is in Mexico or Pakistan or whatever country they are fleeing. Let’s focus on the root cause rather than the symptoms.

Louis J. Berardi

Kihei

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