{"id":106792,"date":"2025-06-30T07:52:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/?p=106792"},"modified":"2025-06-30T07:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:52:40","slug":"letter-is-there-no-decency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2025\/06\/30\/letter-is-there-no-decency\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Is there no decency!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dear Editor,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I have just finished reading Michael Luo\u2019s book \u201cStrangers in the Land.\u201d The book has 432 historical citations and demonstrates that not much has changed in over the last hundred years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As President Trump deals with birthright citizenship, so did the United States in the 1880s. It speaks to the pathways, or lack of pathways, of entering the country and how to seek or are able to seek American citizenship. It speaks to the change in attitude during World War II when we joined with China against Japan, making the Japanese the unwanted population. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the 1880s the Chinese were violently expelled from West-coast communities such as Eureka, and in a similar fashion to how Trump is trying to evict the mostly Spanish speakers from our cities and worksites across the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The phrase \u201cIs there no DECENCY\u201d is just as valid today as during Joe McCarthy\u2019s time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Most respectfully,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Marty Borko<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Waverly, N.Y.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor, I have just finished reading Michael Luo\u2019s book \u201cStrangers in the Land.\u201d The book has 432 historical citations and demonstrates that not much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":82352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Letter: Is there no decency! 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