Open Letter to Cathy McMorris Rogers (R WA)

Want to know a couple of reasons why folks are fed up with Congress, Cathy?

 

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You proclaim that the border crisis is getting worse. You take No responsibility for proclaiming first that if Dems get back into office, they will "Throw open the borders!" and now constantly claiming that "Biden has opened the border!" and that "Democrats welcome illegals!" Worse than that, I hear your colleagues telling anyone with a microphone stuff like they will be given free education and healthcare. Not only that but I heard one of you claim that they'll get "$2500.00" per month from welfare! 

What the heck Cathy? Do you guys think that there are no televisions anywhere south of our borders? 

Knowing the apparent intelligence of a few of your colleagues, like Gaetz, Boebert or Greene, it's not hard to believe. But surely there are some Republicans in Congress who are clever enough to realize that if you are saying that the US is currently welcoming anyone who can make it here, that desperate people suffering from oppression will believe you! 

 If you truly care about the situation on our border, why will you not vote for any of the bills to try to fix it? Why do you want to reduce funding for more border officers or the courts to handle the process? 

Why are you only now being concerned about the fentanyl problem, when it's been the major issue with drug overdoses for all those years that you and your colleagues were clamping down on hard working healthcare professionals and pharmacies, and telling grandmothers to be sure that their mess were locked away. That was not the problem, Cathy! The problem was and still is fentanyl! 

Not just that, but if you really took the time to look, you'd see that we've got a real problem with the stuff coming in from Canada! Chinese ships unload drugs and precursor chemicals in Canadian ports which are overloaded and uninspected just like our own. They know that thanks to you guys, our focus is on our southern border, making it relatively easy to smuggle across the northern border. 

The Republican solution is nothing more than a cause for amusement among the drug trafficking types. Yeah, I mean the freaking Wall! Talk to any of your border enforcement people, Cathy. They have been trying to get it through your heads that most of the smuggling on our southern border is done by American citizens, who drive their vehicles right through with the rest of the tourists and truckers. Whether they are knowingly carrying drugs or are conned into it isn't relevant. Why are you constantly doing all in your power to stop funding for equipment and personnel to try to detect and stop any of this? 

As if all of that wasn't enough, I keep hearing you and your GOP colleagues moaning that since Biden became President, we've been experiencing "Record numbers" of immigrants and "Thousands of pounds of Fentanyl" being stopped by our border agents! 

THIS IS A GOOD THING! 

It should be telling you that even with the limited resources you and your party are allowing them, they are still able to do their jobs! Let me try to make this clear for you. If Customs & Border Patrol Agents are stopping "Thousands of pounds" of drugs at the border, those drugs are not ending up on our streets! Further, even with your party broadcasting to anyone with the ability to hear that the United States of America is now "Welcoming" everybody who is capable of getting here with free stuff and lots of money, the C.B.P. is still capable of stopping record numbers of them. Think what they could do if your party would stop blocking proposals for fully funding the equipment, personnel and courts that are desperately needed to handle the influx. Which, by the way, is going to get worse as the effects of climate change are being increasingly felt. 

But that is a subject for a separate rant. 

If anyone in your office has bothered to read this, thank you very much, If not, I feel better for getting it off my chest!

Your Constituent, etc