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Libertyville deserves better
I am so proud of all of my neighbors in Libertyville — including my actual neighbors — who attended various public meetings to show their support for affordable housing in our village. Seniors, parents, doctors and parishioners shared stories about how housing costs harmed them, or their loved ones, and jeopardize our business community.
I am disappointed in our mayor and the trustees who voted against the ordinance and thoughtlessly dismissed the community’s concerns, and instead chose to do nothing to address them. Our community, and the amazing people who live here, deserve better.
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Alejandra Dominguez, Libertyville
Border crisis unites us
I’ve been reading about America’s imminent civil war. Nearly 260 years ago now, our nation’s unifying moment came after our Civil War ended. Both the North and the South mourned the death of President Lincoln, the one who gave his life to preserve the Union and thereby preserve the nation.
What is it that continues to preserve this great nation?
I believe that unifying moments such as the assassination of President Lincoln have been that which has preserved us. We struggled together through the Great Depression in unity. We fought together through World War II in unity.
You certainly recall how all Americans defended hope together through the tense and dark days following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in unity.
I believe that our current unifying moment in American history concerns the open-border crisis.
Today, we are neither Democrat nor Republican concerning disgust at the open-border crisis. Our home is no longer our home, and we’re offered no rational reason for the current administration’s bold invite to all nations to walk on in.
Regardless of which political party, and no matter whether you are Black or white, we all have come to agree that America is under invasion. Recent Fox News polls indicate that, “Eight in 10 Americans describe the Southern Border situation as a major problem, if not an emergency.”
According to CBS News, a bipartisan group of senators are working together to confront the border issue. Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema remarked, “There’s growing concern, from folks on both sides of the aisle that we have to act now, as a national security measure, to protect our border.”
Who would have thought that the demoniacal plan of the ruling class to divide America would result in uniting America?
Charles Danyus, Round Lake Beach