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Secretary Mayorkas and unbiased reporting: Letters

Re “House panel OKs Mayorkas impeachment charges “ (Feb. 1):

The New York Times is even worse than the Associated Press as a PR arm of the Democrats. Unbiased reporting has been abandoned by them both. In your front-page article on the pending Mayorkas impeachment, the N.Y. Times made its shamelessly aggressive agenda clear. My journalism professors would have blue-penciled this hack piece, sending it back to the writer with a stern warning. The writer says the Republicans “raced forward with a partisan indictment” of Biden’s border policies. Yes, the opposition does oppose. Shocked? They called it an “extraordinary escalation of a political feud,” language that makes the substantive criticism seem only personal, which is their opinion only. The writer further says “The GOP was plowing forward without producing evidence,” when they know that evidence is presented at the impeachment trial. The N.Y. Times has responsibility for its content, but the SCNG has responsibility as well.

— Thomas Tobin, Rancho Cucamonga

Sham impeachments

Thank you Robert Garcia, D-Long Beach, for showing your true colors with your opinion piece Jan. 31. Thank God you don’t represent me in Congress. I doubt you represent the views of the majority of your constituents. Progressive leftists like you believe that the only solution to the invasion of our country from the southern border is to continue with an open border and grant these invaders immediate “parole” or amnesty. You, like many of your party’s leftists, hate Donald Trump so much that you will twist his words to fit your narrative. I agree, we are a nation of immigrants that followed the law in order to gain access to the U.S. I am sick and tired of the rhetoric that we “need” these under-educated, mostly unskilled and unvetted people working in our society. Do your research, President Trump told Congress to give him a clean DACA bill and that he would sign it. Instead, he got a proposal filled with garbage, which he rejected. Please enumerate the details of the proposed Biden immigration solutions that deal with DACA and the southern invasion.

— Roy Reaser, Fullerton

National debt debate

Veronique de Rugy’s Jan. 2 assessment, while accurate, leaves out the answer to the question so many others have also ignored: So what? Most Americans aren’t interested in more academic theories about why it is or isn’t a problem, and assume the government will handle its most basic responsibility, responsibly. So did the people of Argentina, Venezuela, and Greece. Yet with so many examples of the consequences of fiscal profligacy, we still see assessments decrying the process but not describing the outcome. Well, here it is. If you have to borrow money against your home to make the mortgage payments, you will eventually lose it, either through foreclosure or a “distressed” sale. After that, you can rent and pay off someone else’s mortgage.

— M. J. Knudsen, Trabuco Canyon

War and our U.S. military

Re “Pull American troops from the Middle East” (Jan. 30): I agree. The costly and aimless military adventures (since the end of WWII) have done nothing for the American people besides enriching the military industrial complex. When President Eisenhower warned America of the danger of a “too-large” influence of the complex in 1961, the cost of weapons then was much less than the very expensive, technologically sophisticated weapons of war nowadays. And, of course, money is the ingredient that allows any individual or group in a society to gain “too-large” an influence. Yes, indeed! All members of Congress must vote on any military escalation for the record. We failed to heed the warning in 1961, but It is never too late to make our voices heard.

— David M. Bouchier, Long Beach

Garvey on Trump

I can’t be the only one to find it odd that three Democratic contenders for the U.S. Senate and the moderator want to know who Steve Garvey will vote for (Jan. 29) in the presidential election. Neither party has officially named their candidate as yet.

— Paul Hill, Torrance