Dear Editor:

Are you waiting to solve a problem, or define a problem you can’t see?

I frequently hear we are threatened by gangs. Gangs have been a part society for hundreds of years. Los Angeles has developed more than one solution that can work in their city and cities across the nation without a wall. They have invisible walls.

Are you waiting for help from Christ, the son of a Jewish carpenter? He is crying out to us from the border, from the voices of the poor, from those in prison, from the starving children and those who are under our reign of terror.

Families and children are not terrorists. Have you seen the photos of the sleeping babies and their loving mothers who have been called to seek a better and safer place, only to have their babies ripped from their food and their loving mothers? Who is really in danger? Who receives peace and justice in a country where hatred is exposed in torture, in hatred of neighbors of color who saved lives with food and shelter of U.S. citizen flood victims? Kindness, caring, and respect came from south of the border Muslims because there was no wall to prevent them from life saving work.

For 28 years Berlin, Germany had a wall in the city that split families apart and caused hundreds to die as they tried to get to their mothers and fathers on the other side. Did that solve problems or cause problems? The solution was to tear down the wall and let families and freedom ring.

No problem has only one solution, even if its defined parameters are clear and proven. We insult our brains if we insist there is only one solution. The cost for East Germany’s one solution wall was in the trillions even though their wall was considerably smaller than our proposed wall.

Large numbers of politicians on all sides of the aisle know there are better and less expensive solutions to protecting our country’s borders. Let’s encourage our leaders to factually define the problem and give our brains credit to find at least three solutions that will work better than any wall.

Jarryl Larson

Edgecomb