To the editor: The story of Javier Diaz Santana is actually heartbreaking (“Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas,” July 22). It is only one of many disturbing tales the Los Angeles Occasions has reported over the previous few months. What number of do we have to learn earlier than we People acknowledge that the land of the free and residential of the courageous has change into the locus of cruelty? That actually is the purpose.
Whereas I’m at it, the Division of Homeland Safety’s supply of $1,000 to “self-deport,” with an opportunity to return legally to stay the American dream later, is greater than probably a false promise. In mild of the administration’s current actions, I believe we will dispel the notion that authorized immigration to the U.S. entails filling out an utility, proving that you’re a good particular person, then ready in line. Except a person qualifies beneath one of many classes for immigrant visas, largely associated to household or career, there may be little probability of immigrating legally with out being harassed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The U.S. authorities ought to cease making false guarantees and elevating hopes. There is no such thing as a hope, simply extra lies and extra cruelty.
Laurie Jacobs, San Clemente
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To the editor: Please inform me that Diaz shall be suing the federal authorities for what it has achieved and is doing to him. I really feel as if I’m dwelling in a dystopian state.
After I see the DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s industrial on tv making an attempt to promote the general public on the lie that it’s the worst of the worst which might be being rounded up by ICE brokers, the rhetoric jogs my memory of the North Korean “information” broadcasters touting the actions of their “expensive chief.”
Ronald Webster, Lengthy Seashore
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To the editor: It was with nice disappointment and alarm that I learn the July 22 tales of the detentions of Diaz and Narciso Barranco (“3 U.S. Marine brothers confronted hardest mission: Getting their dad free of ICE custody,” July 22). The brutality and inhumane remedy these males skilled by the hands of ICE ought to fear each citizen. Immigrants, authorized or unlawful, are human beings and should be handled with respect and information that they’ve authorized rights.
Carol Karas, Camarillo
