My immigrant mother and father can be horrified by masked ICE brokers

To the editor: I can’t recover from the Los Angeles Occasions’ front-page picture of the masked Border Patrol brokers (“‘Who’re these individuals?’ Masked immigration brokers problem native police, sow worry in L.A.,” June 24). I’m the daughter of immigrants and an immigrant myself. My mother and father survived the Holocaust and a childhood of hate towards them for being Jewish. They got here to america for the chance it could present them to reside free, to follow their faith with out worry and to present their kids a very good life.

I’m completely happy they don’t seem to be right here to see the ugliness of the uniformed, armed and masked males taking up our streets. My mother and father would have rapidly been reminded of their previous. What I see within the image are dictatorships and authoritarian regimes. I don’t see a democracy. I shake my head and ask, “Why?”

Esther Friedberg, Studio Metropolis

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To the editor: Given the image on the entrance web page, one may very well be satisfied that Immigration and Customs Enforcement goes after the “worst of the worst.” However have we seen or heard about any of that? I by no means feared {that a} gardener in my neighborhood was hiding an AK-47 in his garden mower or that the boys outdoors Dwelling Depot had been armed and able to confront ICE. And what? We’ve seen no proof that such threats exist.

If federal authorities say they’re going after the worst, then they need to do this. However carrying two or three weapons to confront a housekeeper is basically overkill.

Monty Armstrong, Irvine