Letters to the Editor: Pleading the 25th in 24

Zionists believe that Donald Trump is “good for Israel.” Trump has loose lips and an unhinged mind, signaling no difference between Biden and Trump. They're as George Galloway declares, “two cheeks of the same backside.” However, Biden’s dementia, mental impairment of aging; demonstrates unfitness for the Office of the President. Yet no Democrat has insisted on the 25th Amendment being enforced on Biden. AIPAC money and Zionism seems to have silenced their protests.

The genocide in Gaza displays the arrogance of racism and Trotskyism of Neocons that encourages white American evangelicals via AIPAC money and power thinking themselves as messengers from God. Messianic Christians believe they can win a Biblical war (while the Israelis use perverted Torah scripture by Zionist-Rabbis that Noam Chomsky's in Perilous Power declares are corrupt, using propagandized teachings — that Goebbels himself would be proud of, to bless genocide in Gaza). Zionist-Jews forget their history in Western Civilization as pariahs beyond the ethnic “melting pots” of Europe and America declared in Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race; and Stakes of the War by Lothrop Stoddard and Glenn Frank.

Americans, like most 1930s German patriots owning a copy of Mein Kampf, never read it. Americans, due to Jewish propagandist-criticism, haven't a historical and opinion comparison — relating that it's a predictor of the present quandary of rhetoric, money and power. Also, Adolph Hitler like Joe Biden are “good Catholics.” However, like Orwell's Animal Farm, “When I look at the Nazis' behavior; then look at the Israelis' behavior, I can't tell the difference!”

Mary Gravitt, Iowa City

Responding to your message on mass deportations

Dear Senator Ernst:

In your response to my letter, you seem confident that the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented workers will target only a small subgroup — those involved criminal behavior. That’s not what the people he's charged with overseeing this crackdown are saying.

You recently came to chat with Storm Lake High School students and assured them there would be no deportations from Storm Lake (“Ernst: No Mass Deportations in SL” Storm Lake Times Pilot, Nov. 20, 2024). Do you have some inside track on what the Trump, Miller, Homan, Bondi team are actually planning?

In today’s Wall Street Journal, a front-page story (“Sheriffs Are Gearing Up to Help With Deportations” Nov. 30-Dec. 1) says the incoming administration is working overtime to recruit the country's sheriffs to become involved in their mass deportations schemes. Have you been in contact with Buena Vista County Sheriff Kory Elston, to see whether he’s on board with any of this?

You seem anxious to dismiss the promises your president-elect has made. I hope you're right, but I'm doubtful.

Jim Walters, Iowa City

Senator Joni Ernst’s letter to Jim Walters on Nov. 26: 

Dear Mr. Walters,

Thank you for contacting me regarding President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration plans. It is important for me to hear from folks in Iowa on important matters such as this.

As you know, President-elect Trump has announced his plans to implement a significant deportation operation targeting people with criminal records, including drug dealing and human trafficking. Border security is national security, and protecting the American people should always be the highest priority for any administration. Since October 2023 alone, more than 400 illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist have been identified between ports of entry at the Southwest Border. This alarming reality underscores the urgent need to address threats to public safety within our borders.

Regardless of your stance on immigration policies, we should all agree on the importance of protecting our citizens by ensuring violent sexual predators are identified, stopped, and deported. With this in mind, I reintroduced the Better Enforcement of Grievous Offenses by unNaturalized Emigrants (BE GONE) Act, which will include sexual assault and other forms of aggravated sexual violence as disqualifying crimes for immigrants seeking residence in the United States, and as deportable offenses for immigrants already living here. The BE GONE Act also ensures those convicted of sexual assault have no grounds for appeal or applications for stays on deportation orders. The solution is simple: sexual predators should be blocked from entry into our country or deported if they have already crossed the border.

America has been, and always will be, a nation of immigrants. Many of those coming to our country are doing so in an attempt to create a better life for themselves and their children, as immigrants have done for generations. At the same time, we are a nation of laws, and enforcing our immigration laws helps us ensure that those who are attempting to come here do so legally. Stopping illegal immigration is vital for our national security and the rule of law.

Please know I will continue closely monitoring any developments and will keep your concerns in mind. Feel free to contact my office with any further information, as I always enjoy hearing from Iowans.

Sincerely,

Joni K. Ernst, United States Senator