Sen. Judy Schwank’s participation in the Jan. 12 rally in Reading sickened me. It’s not that I don’t have sympathy for the poor woman who was killed, but had she been peacefully protesting and not using her car to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from enforcing the law, she would still be alive today.
Where was Schwank’s sympathy for me and my neighbors in the latter part of 2024 when an illegal immigrant broke into our properties and stole our stuff in Ruscombmanor Township. Not in Minnesota but right here in Berks County. Had the immigration laws been enforced we wouldn’t be out a significant amount of money for some of us on fixed incomes. Where is the justice for us? Suppose he would have had a gun or other weapons?
Instead of calling for justice and protesting for people who are breaking our laws by coming into our country illegally and stealing from us, why doesn’t she put her energy toward meaningful property tax reform for people on fixed incomes struggling with ever-rising school taxes?
Schwank has rationalized her values to suit the current political climate and hold herself above poor retired people like us.
The sponsor of that rally was the pro-socialist Make the Road Pennsylvania. The group spearheading anti-ICE unrest is the Sunrise Movement, supported by the Center for Popular Democracy, George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
Chris Readinger
Ruscombmanor Township