Readers Write: Immigration fearmongering, presidential election, Minneapolis
Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes letters from readers online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. Is it worse that former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance ignorantly bloviate about Haitian immigrants eating pets, or worse that people are still susceptible to this kind of thinking? We often use the word “hatred” when talking about these divisive political tactics, but I think there’s a far more apt description of this strategy: primitive. When the flood of immigrants came to Ellis Island in the 1900s (the historical...