The Trump administration acted on the abandoned children at the border crisis which was the pre-Trump administration left overs.

I see where Scott County’s leading snollygoster, Senator Roby Smith, has persuaded the Iowa Legislature to further restrict voting opportunities. His goal is to thwart Democrats and no-party registrants from voting. Next, I expect Smith will introduce legislation simply making it illegal for no-party and Democrats to vote.

"Walls are immoral," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi once said.

The America I have known is fast disappearing. Changes are taking place with a stroke of a pen. The three branches of government once provided checks and balances to protect our freedoms. Elections used to be free. Now open discourse is ridiculed and censored. Now if you support the "wrong" party you can be blacklisted, threatened, lose your job.

Jill Fluker's (Feb. 27) letter to the editor was right on. Senator Roby Smith does not represent our district or me. I have written and called Roby Smith many times. Only once did I receive any reply. It was two weeks later and was a form email stating that he was too busy to answer.

No one can deny that fossil fuels have provided benefits for developed nations, giving us energy for industry and power to warm our homes. We’ve also found some positive uses for the plastics derived from oil, such as for health care. However, this industry has created massive pollution and has most often negatively impacted low-income communities of color. Oil companies have known about global warming since the 1960s, but they have promoted a media campaign that rivals Big Tobacco to deny these existential threats, and have lobbied members of Congress to put profits for the wealthy over the health of billions.

Racism is a serious and contemporary evil and sin.

I live in New Boston, Ill. Occasionally, I travel to Aledo for groceries and medical supplies. When I travel that highway, I am amazed and thankful for the conditions of the roads.

I continue to be absolutely dumbfounded by how disconnected this country has become. How critical one citizen thinks of another. How this much hatred could gather so much momentum.

We are witnessing outrageous and unacceptable behavior. Voter suppression, supported by lies, is a corruption of our democracy, leading down the path of tyranny. Please read "On Tyranny," by Timothy Snyder.