It’s Time To Recognize Immigrants

The current immigration reform bill being considered in our national government is getting the usual negative scrutiny from some of our local opponents on this issue.

I think it is a nonissue at this point because many of the undocumented people who have been living here in Northwest Arkansas for years are already a part of this community.

There are many residents who were brought here as young children who are attending or have already graduated from local high schools. Some arrived here as adults years ago and have been here living and working in our area.

Why is it so hard for some people to accept? Stop and face reality! Undocumented people are not just going to magically disappear for your convenience. They are real human beings who have been allowed to create their place in this community.

As a matter of fact, some of them are preparing your food in local restaurants, cleaning your houses, or working in most of the stores and businesses in this area. Some of them are doing much more than that! Get used to it!

It is virtually impossible to reverse this fact, so to complain about it is a waste of time. In Northwest Arkansas, I would say it is about 20 to 30 years too late to be exact.

It’s time to recognize!

Tom Arnhart

Rogers

Power Lines Lead

To Chemicals

Paraquat, also known as Agent Orange, was used in the Vietnam war to defoliate the jungle and killed everything, including any mammal that ingested even one drop of the

stuff.

In rural areas where there are utility lines, they will be spraying increasingly toxic chemicals because weeds have come genetically resistant to glyphosate and more traditional herbicides.

In the state of Georgia, there is 97 percent resistance, and Arkansas is just about there. New genes are developing in the plants themselves to make them ever more resistant to the toxic chemicals we spray on them.

Carroll Electric is already spraying all over Northwest Arkansas and now they are proposing this Swepco power line (through Benton and Carroll counties).

The herbicides are not going to stop getting stronger and the trade magazine, Corn and Soy Digest just recently suggested that Paraquat may be the only thing strong enough to kill the weeds.

Paraquat is illegal in Europe and nearly 40 other countries because of its extreme toxicity to animals and wildlife, including aquatic wildlife.

Susan Pang

Garfield

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