LETTER: What happened to our country?
Promises that the president made before the election: Only criminals and drug dealers would be deported. The war in Ukraine would end immediately. Prices would be lowered immediately. Medicaid would not be touched. Every one of these promises has been broken.
In his “Big Beautiful Bill,” which is a Big Ugly Bill, the cut to Medicaid is astronomical. All the people we provide services for are Medicaid recipients. What will happen to them? SNAP will be cut. What about food for the needy? All this so that rich billionaires will get big tax cuts.
Concerning U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deporting drug dealers and criminals: Who are they? Of course, we want criminals out of our country, but are they the ones ICE is deporting? Not really. Racial profiling is going on, and anyone without white skin is subject to removal and without due process. Are these thugs with guns and masks going after people who have been in this country doing honorable work? Yes. One man was doing lawn work when ICE seized him, dragged him to a car and beat him. He is the father of three Marines – two on active duty. He taught his boys to love this country, and this is how he is repaid?
ICE grabbed a woman who is still nursing a 3-month-old baby and took her to a detention center. Her husband must travel three hours twice a week so she can nurse the baby. The administration has erected cages in alligator country in Florida, and deported people are placed in these cages. Where is our humanity?
Why are people who are seized not given due process in the open? If ICE did this in the open, then we would see if these people were criminals.
The Founding Fathers had the foresight to set up a form of checks and balances when penning the U.S. Constitution so that one person would not have complete control of the government. They left England because they did not want to be ruled by a king. What has happened in this administration?
The Republican Congress has abdicated its responsibility and allowed the executive branch to do whatever it wants. The U.S. Supreme Court has been complicit.
What president, Republican or Democrat, has made the White House a place of monetary gain? Watches, Bibles, coins and now perfume and cologne are sold.
The president is trying to run this country like he ran his businesses. What happened to them? Many declared bankruptcy.
Sister James Ann Germuska, O.S.F.
Uniontown
Germuska works with Crosskeys Human Services.