To the editor: I’ve been a card-carrying Republican for 51 years. I’m very supportive of the Trump administration and consider lots of his hardball adjustments have lengthy been wanted.
I’ve additionally supported, wholeheartedly, the efforts to shut the borders and to deport “the worst of the worst” criminals to wherever they got here from. I consider this can be a daring and crucial transfer to regain regulation and order in our nation.
Nonetheless, the home sweeping up of law-abiding immigrants to fulfill quotas is nearer to fascism (“Trump says he desires to deport ‘the worst of the worst.’ Authorities information inform one other story,” July 13). White Home Deputy Chief of Employees Stephen Miller has crossed the road, and our authorities is permitting it. Our humanity as a nation is being compromised.
The previous adage that evil triumphs when good males do nothing applies immediately. I don’t consider MS-13 members are hanging round House Depot and such, nor are they our gardeners, housecleaners or caregivers. Of the folks which were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, round 70% of them don’t have any prison convictions. Some have been within the strategy of making an attempt to get inexperienced playing cards or are married to residents. They don’t seem to be the worst of the worst. They’re pawns of deportation quotas.
I consider that we should implement a system that permits noncriminal undocumented immigrants, particularly these with households, to get inexperienced playing cards, pay taxes and stay in our nation. Gangs, cartels, terrorists and criminals be damned. Ship them residence or wherever. However we have to be diligent to type out those that defile our nation and those that are property.
Donna Block, Santa Monica
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To the editor: It appears to me that people who find themselves being picked up in these ICE raids at farms, House Depots, eating places and extra are, in actual fact, productive, contribute to society and have a piece ethic. If, in the midst of their day, they make any purchases at a retailer, they’re actually paying (gross sales) taxes to the federal government. Many even pay revenue taxes.
Having seen some movies of individuals being picked up off the road, I’m horrified that many of those ICE officers don’t act like skilled federal brokers, however look like extra akin to vigilantes. These abductions appear to be primarily based extra on pores and skin colour than degree of hazard to society.
If it have been potential to drive round in vehicles and decide up “murderers” and “rapists” by the tons of, don’t you assume the police could be doing that?
Rod Reynolds, Silver Lake
