Jan. 19, 2026 7 AM PT
To the editor: It’s official: The State Division is suspending immigration visas for individuals from poorer nations as a result of they could want meals stamps or one thing (“U.S. suspending immigrant visa processing from 75 countries over public assistance,” Jan. 14).
I suppose we will count on “Don the builder” to start chiseling off Emma Lazarus’ inscription on the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your drained, your poor, Your huddled plenty craving to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”
Denys Arcuri, Indio
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To the editor: As I learn the record of nations from which the U.S. will not settle for visas, and as I recall the writings of White Home Deputy Chief of Employees Stephen Miller since his high school days in Santa Monica, I conclude the U.S. coverage is to permit solely white immigrants into the nation. I’m questioning if that is the best way U.S. residents need it to go.
Invoice Mosier, Hermosa Seaside
