• Rich Barlow

    Senior Writer

    Photo: Headshot of Rich Barlow, an older white man with dark grey hair and wearing a grey shirt and grey-blue blazer, smiles and poses in front of a dark grey backdrop.

    Rich Barlow is a senior writer at BU Today and Bostonia magazine. Perhaps the only native of Trenton, N.J., who will volunteer his birthplace without police interrogation, he graduated from Dartmouth College, spent 20 years as a small-town newspaper reporter, and is a former Boston Globe religion columnist, book reviewer, and occasional op-ed contributor. Profile

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  1. I am sorry to read of Commissioner Evans’ implication that his grandparents’ legal immigration is comparable to the massive, unchecked flow of people through Mexico and across our southern borders. It is not. These are not just children; they are mostly young men who are being recruited by cartel-affiliated gangs during their passage through Mexico and even in the detention centers funded by US taxpayers. As responsible and caring adults, we must understand that American citizens are not responsible for, or for fixing, the ills of all nations. We have poor, sick, and ambitious children here in the United States. Many go hungry and lack shoes and new clothing; many also live in homes where violence and drug use is a way of life. If we are going to use taxpayer funds to help children, our first responsibility should be supporting a better life for these children and their families; as it is, we are a country abandoning our own.

    I am deeply troubled by the President’s failure to secure our borders and to discourage, rather than encourage illegal entry of anyone to this country. There is no parallel to the legal immigration of people from all over the globe to the United States, which is a foundation of our nation.

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