To the editor: A just lately printed article documenting the political celebration divide over Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids initiated throughout President Trump’s second time period in workplace highlights the very divisive nature of the presidential program (“Californians sharply divided alongside partisan traces about immigration raids, ballot finds,” Nov. 26).
Finally, the aim of the deportation effort is twofold: one, to take away immigrants who gained entry to america illegally and two, to cease such illegal border-crossing completely. Each of those goals hover across the comical and draw close to to the delusional. Individuals will at all times discover a approach to get round a barrier.
The medical mannequin of treating illness outlined to me by my academics years in the past completely explains why that is so.
In medication, college students are instructed to kind out signs from trigger and to focus their efforts on the latter. Giving a toddler treatment for an ear an infection that merely alleviates the painful symptom, reasonably than an antibiotic for a bacterial trigger, is a working example.
Equally, expelling immigrants is just treating the symptom. The trigger stays that the surroundings from which these individuals come isn’t supportive of the kind of life they wish to present for his or her spouses, their youngsters and for themselves. America does present it. Greater than 100 years in the past, my grandparents left Tsarist Russia in search of the Golden Land for his or her households they usually by no means regarded again.
Do you wish to cease unlawful immigration? Do no matter is critical to lift the usual of residing within the nations from which immigrants come. Deal with trigger, not symptom.
Bruce Littman, Porter Ranch
