My goodness, my sympathy to The Monitor’s opinion editor Sandra Sanchez. She is so worried and scared.
Ms. Sanchez states in her “There’s more to fear in Texas now” commentary in the May 10, 2017 VMS, that she worries her young daughter will be racially profiled by law enforcement once she starts driving in Sept.
Ma’am, any person that drives and is pulled over for any moving violation or any obvious defect in their vehicle will be asked for their driver’s license and proof of insurance.
What’s so bad about that? (My opinion is that any person that doesn’t have a driver’s license or insurance should have their vehicle impounded).
As an American of Mexican descent, I have no problem with law enforcement doing their job. I welcome whatever they can do to keep us all safe.
And I have no problem with immigration agents asking me if I’m a U.S. citizen at checkpoints, or anywhere for that matter.
My opinion is that all the illegal drugs readily available to the very young, and for that matter, all Americans, is a much greater threat to any of my loved ones than being racially profiled or being asked if they’re a U.S. citizen.
In my opinion, another high risk threat to all of us is getting involved in an accident with drug or human smugglers fleeing police.
How many deaths and/or serious injuries have individuals that have no regard for human life caused in the Valley alone?
Please, Ms. Sanchez, why fear and worry about those whose job it is to protect us?
Fear having a porous border, drug smugglers, and drug dealers who would love to have us or our family members become drug addicts.
N. Rodriguez Harlingen
