LETTER: Texas shines in migration control

As the US goes to the polls in November the world, and indeed Americans themselves, are all too aware that whoever they elect as their next president, the choice they make may well shape the global political landscape for the rest of the decade and beyond.

Foreign policy is almost never foremost on people’s minds — their political considerations are almost always orientated towards domestic socioeconomic factors such as employment and law and order or reproductive rights for women.

However, there is one issue that all Americans now have in common with almost all developed as well as developing countries — global migration. One is reminded of a phrase by former president Ronald Reagan, who once stated that “every immigrant who comes to America makes America more American”.

America is a nation of immigrants, all of whom have contributed immensely towards building it. But Reagan was referring to legal, not illegal, immigration. Opportunity and freedom is the very promise of America. The US is after all an idea, one that continually evolves.

The efforts of Texas to combat illegal migration as well as drug smuggling and human trafficking into the US is America’s fight. Its elite border authorities valiantly attempt to secure America’s southern border, thus assisting every other state in regulating illegal migration while welcoming all immigrants who come to the US legally in search of opportunity.

Texas is the best of America.

Tumelo Ralinala
Gauteng

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