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Trump will bring our country back

Few can question the accomplishments of retired Judge Cruz Reynoso. But Donald Trump’s opinion regarding the possible bias of Judge Gonzalo Curiel as the sitting judge of the Trump University case is fair comment.

Since the Vietnam War, our many impotent Congresses have kept the door open for incredible amounts of people to immigrate to the United States, legally and illegally. For decades we have thrown billions of dollars trying to fix problems Congress has created because we were never prepared for this huge number of people coming in. This has overwhelmed taxpayers; overloaded our schools, welfare programs and morality; and I assert this has all been led by the liberal left and Democrats.

What have we accomplished? How many more programs do we need to institute that don’t work to satisfy decades of failure? When is the ethnic pride and dignity that we the taxpayers have funded going to kick in? Donald Trump is neither a racist nor a bigot; he simply does not fear expressing in not so politically correct language the truth about our country’s failures. We are going to get our country back through his leadership as president!

Michael Der Manouel Sr., Fresno

This story was originally published June 18, 2016 at 2:32 PM with the headline "Trump will bring our country back."

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