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Stop Using Tragedy to Meet Your Political Agenda

It’s time you stop trying to meet a political agenda and start trying to make thing better from the inside out, and I suggest you start with yourself.

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Stop Using Tragedy to Meet Your Political Agenda
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The recent terror attack in New York left families without mothers and fathers, parents without their children, families and it left the country broken once again.

It has left citizens afraid to go to work every morning and left students in fear of attending school. This has shown us one more time that evil and hate are closer then we may think. However, this is not an opportunity to meet your political agenda.

Lives were lost, if it wasn’t acceptable to talk about gun control after the Vegas attack it is not acceptable to talk about the “sick and deranged” man’s nationality. It was said that one mans actions were not those of every gun owner. So I am here to repeat, one immigrant’s actions are not all immigrants’ actions.

Mr. President, this is not the time for you to discuss the lack of a merit-based immigration system.

It is not the time to discuss what the democratic party has and has not done. This is not the time to discuss your beliefs of the immigration system, which EVERYONE can agree is faulty and needs a reform.

This is not the time to attack Senator Chuck Schumer personally, because though his idea is faulty, it was presented to and voted on by Congress and was passed, something you seem to fail at these days. No law is applicable forever, just like the second amendment, immigration laws need a reform. So if it is not acceptable to talk about gun reform it is unacceptable to talk about immigration reform during a time like this.

This is the time you tell everyone what to do, you tell everyone that you will keep hate out of the country.

I don’t care how you do it, you always talk about helping the good immigrants and keeping the bad ones out, but it seems you have not been successful in that either. Just to remind you that though it is called a “Diversity Visa Lottery Program” these people get screened by alleged FBI agents, maybe it’s time we take a look at these screeners because they seem to be missing quite a lot of information between gun license background checks and immigrant background checks.

Let's not blame our systems because they seem to work the majority of the time, let's blame the people who run the systems.

You said it yourself we have an “extreme vetting program.” How did this one slip?

How can we make this process better without limiting the good people? I am a resident of this country that wants nothing but peace and love to dominate this and every country, but your words spread NOTHING but hate. Your instigations against immigrants, Muslims, and people of color has not caused anything but rage.

It’s time you turn to the people of this country and tell them to love one another. It’s time we stop fighting fire with fire. It’s time we stop picking fights with countries like Russia and North Korea. It’s time we make people feel safe going to work.

It’s time we make college students feel like they don’t have to plan an escape route in case of terror attacks. It’s time to stop thinking when and if the next attack is going to happen, instead of thinking what can we do differently so this doesn’t happen again and making sure that protocol remains strong and does not get forgotten.

It’s time to we start looking for a way to fix this country instead of others because we first must start with ourselves before we can fix anyone else. It’s time you stop trying to meet a political agenda and start trying to make thing better from the inside out.

I suggest you start with yourself.

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