Don’t allow illegal people
Good for Texas. I always believed it was illegal to enter the United States without a legal passport but evidentally not, because Texas needed to pass a law to make it legal.
Illegal people should not be allowed in the U.S. All they do is cost the taxpayers money with their corrupt ways: drugs, and medical and social needs. I can go on and on about what they cost the taxpayers.
These bleeding-heart people who want them should take them into their own homes and take care of them. I have a hard enough time taking care of myself and my own family without them. With Joe Biden-Barack Obama inflation, I can’t help them.
Abel Workman
Weippe
Protected fish connections
I caught my first steelhead on the lower Clearwater River and more on the Snake River, just above Lewiston. Every time I hooked one of those fish, I thought of the connection it gave me. I thought about how the fish tied to the Columbia River, to the Pacific Ocean and even to orcas, and how the Pacific Ocean and orcas tied to the mountains of central Idaho through salmon and steelhead.
This connection is being protected by three recent and historic steps to recover and rebuild salmon and steelhead stocks. A $200 million commitment will reintroduce salmon above Grand Coulee. Second, all federal agencies have been directed to take all necessary actions to recover salmon and uphold tribal treaty rights. Third, assessments and plans to be made will inform removal of the lower Snake River dams. These actions will help build resilient climate-adapted communities and businesses where farmers, anglers, irrigators and energy users will thrive.
The tribes have fought for the fish they reserved more than 150 years ago through treaty rights. These historic steps will help fulfill those treaty obligations.
Please tell your elected officials recovering salmon can help adapt our energy, transportation and irrigation systems for a climate-changed future. Tell them thriving and healthy river systems can be restored and enjoyed. Tell them that you, too, have a connection to these wild fish and that you don’t want to lose it.
Gregg Servheen
Boise
Who wants breaching?
Who are the proponents of dam breaching? What happens as a result? Citizens lose clean, affordable energy and a precious water source. Will destruction of dams increase salmon population? Absolutely not.
Predator activity decimates salmon where the river meets the sea. Predators include seals, orca and fishermen. Dam building is as ancient as nature taught beavers. Claimants for dam breaching cite that dams are unnatural. Do they say the same for LGBT people?
They say that special-interest, big money will replace energy with unspecified secret new sources. What about depleting water reserves?
I believe the dam breachers have angry spirits intent on the destruction of U.S. civilization for spite while unwittingly depriving even themselves of the benefits they enjoy but are ungrateful for.
Camille Hattrup
Troy
