(Letter to the Editor - Photo Illustration - MetroCreativeConnection)

Kamala Harris has previously stated as POTUS she would consider emptying prisons, releasing all criminals, including violent ones, back on to our streets, thus crime would sky-rocket. Our country would experience an increase in “new” first-time criminals, because potential criminals would no longer fear capture and incarceration.

Harris also stated she would decriminalize illegal entry into the U.S. She would allow 20 million plus unvetted illegals to automatically remain in the U.S., knowing many are criminals released from prisons in their home countries and sent here. The Biden-Harris administration has already created a new category of crime called migrant crime. An honor they own.

Harris favors rewarding these illegals with free food, housing, cell phones, college educations and grants them voting rights and eventual citizenship. She would also cut the Social Security benefits of our senior recipients and pay it to illegals. This would result in endless streams of illegals pouring across our southern border.

Harris has long been for defunding the police, who are in many departments currently underfunded, but recently she announced she would consider Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s idea of disarming the police, not only of firearms but of pepper sprays, tasers and night sticks. Harris doesn’t realize (or care) about the dangers police face daily during traffic stops and domestic violence calls.

This will also not help undermanned police departments meet their goals in hiring new officers.

Harris seeks replacing police officers with psychologists to talk criminals into surrendering peacefully, without violence. How many police officers (and psychologists) would die before Harris realizes the insanity of this policy, if enacted?

Harris has seemingly undergone an election year “conversion” and is now a “new” moderate 2024 Kamala Harris, as opposed to the “old” radical 2020 Kamala Harris. The “new” Kamala Harris suddenly favors drilling, fracking, clean coal, the border wall, securing the border, after claiming that it was secure for the past 3-and-a-half years.

If, Heaven forbid, Harris becomes president, which Kamala Harris would assume office, the “old” Kamala Harris or the “new” Kamala Harris? The answer is obvious. She would immediately revert back to the “old” Harris.

The fake news is blaming Donald Trump’s fiery rhetoric for the two assassination attempts. Yet the Democrats are forever comparing Trump to Hitler and as a threat to democracy. C’mon, man!

Steve Wolverton

Parkersburg