Letter to the editor: Why so little coverage of border crisis?

By not enforcing federal immigration laws, the Biden administration is encouraging illegal immigration along our southern border. Mexican cartels dangerously are smuggling children, adults, lethal fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S, overwhelming the U.S. border patrol. U.S. taxpayers are paying to house and process.

Neither the president nor the vice president shows much interest. The vice president lied to NBC anchor Lester Holt on June 8, claiming “we have been to the border” when she clearly had not been to the border before her June 25 visit. Holt’s challenge to her lie made the Biden tactics even more shameful. This is a full-blown humanitarian and illegal drug crisis, yet the Trib gives it little coverage.

The Tribune-Review is right to focus its reporting on local news and to use news syndicates such as the Associated Press to report national and international stories. Because the Tribune- Review is reporting little news about this worsening crisis, can we assume that the syndicated news services also are giving little coverage to this major news story?

Voters strongly support legal immigration and strongly oppose illegal immigration. Those applying for citizenship the legal way deserve better. So does our country. What the print and broadcast media elect not to report is often more indicative of political bias than the news that it does report.

Scott Brown

Greensburg