Dear Editor: Brenda Becker Walker (Aug. 20) says she is ashamed of letters that point out some factual realities that, despite her claims of being a journalist, she apparently blocks out of her mind without even-handed consideration.

To point out what ought to be self-evident, any humanitarian crisis is subject to exploitation from a sinful humanity. It is impossible for corrupting forces not to occur, and this current episode is from a region where, not only ISIS but other radical Islamists have openly pledged their commitment to destroying the Judeo/Christian West and infiltrating the refugee migration.

Walker claims Syrian refugees are scrutinized. What scrutiny? By what means? By what criteria? By what databases supplying accurate background information? In fact, none of this exists, and it is not helpful to claim that it does. It is rational, not bigoted, to question why 80 percent of Syrian refugees have not been families, but young males.

Having personally given food, clothing, furniture and cash money to illegal immigrants, I am not immune to the desperation of many honestly seeking a better life. But it is not evil for me to recognize that drug cartels, rapists, murderers and human traffickers exist among illegals crossing the southern border. It is not bigoted to recognize that the Mexican government has cynically and intentionally exported some of their criminals across the border, and it is perfectly constitutional to create a realistic screening standard for would-be immigrants and refugees that they understand and respect American values.

LOUIS DIAZ

Corona