Richard Zentgraf, Wichita Falls

According to Jeh Johnson, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, it is costing the Federal government anywhere between $250 and $1,000 per day to feed and house each undocumented immigrant child whom immigration enforcement agents have picked up inside the nation's southern border.

Current estimates place this year's undocumented immigrant surge, dating to October of last year, at close to 60,000 people; the government expects another 30,000 illegals to arrive before October of this year.

President Barack Obama, who has a history of insisting that the U.S.-Mexico border is adequately secured against mass migrations of such magnitude, has requested Congress to authorize $3.7 billion in emergency funding to address the border crisis — from which the above-mentioned $1.8 billion for housing, feeding and health care, while the money lasts, would be drawn. The housing funds would be administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Now compare that to the average Social Security recipient. That senior has spent a lifetime paying taxes and a portion of that paycheck toward his or her retirement. In return the senior is allotted an average dollar amount of $42.00 a day to live.

I guess the seniors of this country need to become Mexican citizens and cross back over illegally so they can get on that gravy-train. No wonder Trump is resonating with so many folks.