To the Editor:

“Trump Invoking ‘Crisis’ at Border as Voting Nears” (front page, Nov. 2) describes President Trump’s latest brutal policy based on his usual collection of lies. Now he is saying that if, after walking for weeks through the heat and sleeping on streets, some exhausted, hungry, frustrated teenager impulsively throws a stone, our soldiers should “consider it a rifle .” That means shoot at men, women and children. And we thought separating families was bad.

Even the president’s lies about most not showing up for immigration court (most do ) or being criminals (immigrants have lower crime rates than native-born Americans ) do not justify shooting at families.

We need a check on this president, and the current Republican-controlled Congress has demonstrated an unwillingness to fulfill that role. It is not immigrants we should fear. In these midterms we need to vote for people who will be a restraint on cruel policies based on falsehoods.

Wanda D. Foglia

Glassboro, N.J.

