Letters: Razor wire use called inhumane

Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security plan calls for the installation of concertina wire along our Rio Grande. Concertina wire manufacturers promote it by stating it “has sharp blades which can slice deep into your flesh and cause fatal injuries sometimes.”

The governor’s plan is inhumane and should outrage all decent Texans. Sadly, some elected officials continue to normalize the sadistic treatment of our fellow man.

Ensnarement of men, women and children in razor wire is a new low in an already cruel political reelection strategy. From the Krakow ghetto to Japanese internment camps, barbed wire has a tragic history when applied to fencing off those considered undesirable. Its use has never gone down in history as wise or just.

As a lifelong Texan, I don’t want this to be part of our legacy. Using concertina razor wire is a seemingly simple solution to a complex problem, but it will have shameful consequences.

I pray that we’re better humans than that, regardless of our political affiliations.

Ricardo A. Perez

Former mayor

Mission

High court

draws fire

Five conservative Supreme Court justices, per a leaked Samuel Alito draft opinion, will deny women full constitutional rights. How did it come to this?

George W. Bush lost the 2000 popular vote, prevailing in the Electoral College, after a conservative Supreme Court halted Florida’s recount. Donald Trump’s 2016 election, aided by Russian interference, allowed three more out-of-mainstream Federalist Society-affiliated selections joining Bush’s two appointees.

Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s new rule violated the Constitution’s “advice and consent” clause, denying President Barack Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland a hearing with 11 months remaining in his term while shoe-horning the Federalist Society’s Amy Coney Barrett with weeks in Trump’s! The duplicity is that each had to pass an anti-Roe v. Wade litmus test.

Constitutional patriots refuse to be cowed or silenced amid the GOP’s arbitrary, authoritarian actions against the heart and spirit of the Constitution. Opposed to their mindset, we stand full-square for upholding Roe v. Wade.

The Declaration of Independence identified them as “inalienable rights.” They need not be enumerated, notwithstanding Alito’s tenuous grasp of the Constitution.

Control over our body is each American’s inalienable right! Those with awareness of the pre-Roe v. Wade world’s back-alley butchery, uncertainty in family planning and an appreciation of “rule of law-due process” must act quickly concerning contingencies when the court overturns Roe v. Wade and GOP states legislate roadblocks in the path of women controlling their own bodies.

Rev. Barry Abraham Zavah

Alpine

Can’t handle

immigrants

Where do we put all these people? I feel bad for migrants from other countries, but some people think we can save the world.

Does anybody have an answer to where all these people can live?

We have millions of homeless U.S. citizens who can’t find a home, so bringing millions of more people isn’t going to help the homeless crisis. That is beyond stupid.

How about we fix our housing problem for our citizens first, then let more people come when we have answers.

Why doesn’t that make sense to everyone?

Bill Rouillier

McAllen