To the editor:
Trump continues to weaken our actual security by all but assuring that Transportation Security Agency employees and Coast Guard members will work without pay so he can get some money for his border wall.
In fact, according to multiple reports, no one has been arrested on terrorism charges at our southern border in the last few years. In contrast, about 4,000 people were prevented by the Department of Homeland Security from entering the United States in 2017, mainly at sea and airports.
When will we admit that Trump only wants to save face politically? There is no invasion, hundreds of soldiers lost family time during the holidays because they were deployed to the border, and now the people who make up our first line of security on our coasts and at airports may soon go without pay.
There is no emergency. Trump lies.
George Giacoppe, Riverside
