Letter: Opinions on immigration, Israel show ignorance

People who were taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas,In this Sunday, June 17, 2018, photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. - photo by Associated Press

06232018 IMMIGRATION BORDER — People who were taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas,In this Sunday, June 17, 2018, photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. - photo by Associated Press

On the March 13 Opinion page, Mr. Will Morris IV linked our actions in trying to protect our borders to the United State’s “violent past.” According to Mr. Morris, “when I hear slurs and words like ‘illegals’ used to wound, I think of the dehumanizing rhetoric directed at the Chinese to justify their exclusion” during the 1800s and the Long Depression.