Donald Trump, vocalizing before thinking (yet again), has mischaracterized as “immigrants” the people who enter United States territory illegally and unrecorded by walking across the undefended portions of the U.S.-Mexico border. Those aliens are invaders, not immigrants.

Immigrants enter a sovereign nation through a legally endorsed, regulated, recorded procedure. And sovereign nations that deserve to be so designated do not allow unregulated, undocumented invasions of their territories, even those of a singular nature, to become routine events.

Leonard C. Johnson

Moscow