Homeland security exists to protect us

To the editor:

When the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), not to be confused with the Department of Human Services (DHS), was conceived its intent was to guard against people from getting into this country who would do us harm on our own soil. It also set up airport security to prevent another 9/11 type attack.

President Barack Obama has taken it one step further by tying immigration reform to it as well. I guess he thinks we need to let everyone into this country before we can judge them a threat to U.S. security. The scariest part of his plan is that the president has said that he wants to bring refugees from Syria to the U.S. as well. This plan is so anti-U.S. security it's not even funny. Can you say ISIS?

It seems to me that we would be a lot safer if the Republican-held Congress would grow a pair and allow the DHS to be completely defunded and do away with it all together. The money saved could be sent to the states to pay for more police, after all once these people who would do us harm are allowed into our communities it becomes a matter for state and local police to deal with.

I do not feel safer with the current administration in charge of homeland security. Do you?

Paul Ster

Marion