I find it interesting that Massachusetts seems to be caught off guard and unprepared for the immigrants recently moved to Massachusetts. Where are all the people who have voted for the Democrats who support our open borders? Where are the people who voted to make their cities sanctuary cities? That is where these people should be placed. They have been asked to open their homes to these undocumented people. I have seen no reports of this happening in any meaningful numbers. Yet they continue to support the current administration which has forced Texas to manage over 2 million immigrants in 2022 alone. Can people not see that this makes no common sense?

Please understand I do not blame the undocumented folks who come here. Our government is basically asking them to come. Why wouldn’t they? Who wouldn’t want to come to America?

Let’s get back to the laws we had in place for sustaining a reasonable flow of legal immigrants into this country. We do not have the infrastructure in place to manage this influx of undocumented people. We are losing our country as we knew it and have only the current administrations; national, state and municipal to blame for it. It is time for people to step up and say enough!

Joan Gonfrade

Ashland

The wildfires that destroyed the city of Lahaina on Maui have become a ‘Katrina moment’ for President Biden. For just as with Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, where President Bush’s response was inept and incoherent, so too is Biden’s response toward this other natural disaster today. First of all, his visit to the devastated area comes late, more than two weeks after the destruction occurred. Then he attempts to make jokes with survivors and draws lame comparisons to a very minor experience he suffered with a small fire in his own life. This behavior would be comical if it wasn’t so callous and ignorant. I say for shame to all of it. We deserve better!

Sean Coughlin

Acton

Re: “Feldman: It’s time to bring back the independent counsel,” Aug. 23

The pas de deux with newly appointed special counsel David Weiss and the Biden DOJ is a danse macabre. Mr. Weiss is hopelessly compromised by various conflicts of interest. It is profoundly depressing that Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed the compromised Delaware U.S. attorney and that Mr. Weiss accepted the assignment.

More to the point is how compromised the Democratic Party is by politics, the truth be damned. This entire episode is a signal example of how our politics have deteriorated. Perhaps the mainstream media will tumble to the story.

Paul Bloustein

Cincinnati, Ohio