To the Editor:
Re “Biden Plan Gives 11 Million a Path to U.S. Citizenship” (front page, Jan. 20):
Immigrants, asylum seekers and Dreamers like me have endured four years of attacks from the Trump administration. Even though I can breathe a sigh of relief with this new administration, the uncertainty of my status remains the same.
This is why President Biden’s proposal to overhaul our nation’s immigration system matters. Millions of undocumented immigrants are currently serving as essential workers, and yet have not received any sort of assistance in previous Covid-19 relief packages.
I urge Congress and the Biden administration to finally pass immigration reforms, and am hopeful that they will.
Jose Garcia
San Francisco
The writer is a communications associate with the Latino Community Foundation.
To the Editor:
While I totally support a path to citizenship for the Dreamers who were brought to this country as children, I oppose their Dreamers status being used as a path to citizenship for their parents who are here illegally.
Gail G. Abrams
Little Silver, N.J.
Christians in the Grip of Trump, a ‘False Prophet’
To the Editor:
Re “Trump Ignites a War Within the Church” (column, Jan. 15):
As David Brooks observes, people of faith who support Donald Trump are at a crossroads. Some are waking up to the fact that their political savior is a false prophet who must be repudiated. The rest are lost in a desert worshiping a golden calf of their own making.
Perhaps in Mr. Trump’s gilded reflection, they can still imagine their dreams fulfilled, or feel strong or righteous. But in casting their lot with Mr. Trump, these Christians have strayed into a moral wilderness. They nearly took the country with them.
Kevin Berrill
Chevy Chase, Md.
To the Editor:
David Brooks highlights divisions in the evangelical church, but I think that some other churches in our country have become a microcosm for divisive, vitriolic political opinion.
As a Christian, I found it disturbing on Jan. 6 to watch Trump “patriots” gathered around a large hand-held cross to pray before assaulting the U.S. Capitol.
This is an appropriation of Christianity to justify an alternate reality of lies.
What has happened to the golden rule “to love your neighbor as yourself”? Why can’t the clergy preach about Christ’s espousal of truth, a central tenet of Christianity, without worrying that they will be attacked by right-wing conservatives in their congregations?
I hope that it won’t take generations for our churches to heal.
Margery Cuyler
Lawrenceville, N.J.