Letter to the editor: We should all be concerned about Project 2025

Americans of all stripes should be concerned about Project 2025, a transition plan for the Trump government put together by many people who served in Donald Trump’s first presidential administration.

For example, the section I cite below was written by Ken Cuccinelli, who served in the Department of Homeland Security under Trump. While it is an enormous document (so I do not have time or space in a short letter to list its many dangerous proclamations and shortcomings), one of its most troubling components is how it nakedly argues for the suspension of the rule of law in the case of increased waves of migrants. On page 152, it says it would authorize the secretary of Homeland Security to “prohibit in whole or in part the introduction of persons … to avert or curtail such mass migration and for such period of time as it is deemed necessary, including through the expulsion of such aliens.”

This is an affront to the love of immigration and welcoming inimical to the American people. Folks trying to come here are often fleeing persecution, political violence and environmental disasters in their home countries. The idea that these people should be subjected to a despotic fiat outside the rule of law — rather than welcomed and treated as fellow people — should worry all Americans, many of whom are descended from people who fled their countries for the very same reasons.

Paul Johnson

Lawrenceville