To the editor: I can’t recover from the Los Angeles Instances’ front-page picture of the masked Border Patrol brokers (“‘Who’re these individuals?’ Masked immigration brokers problem native police, sow concern in L.A.,” June 24). I’m the daughter of immigrants and an immigrant myself. My dad and mom survived the Holocaust and a childhood of hate towards them for being Jewish. They got here to the US for the chance it might present them to reside free, to apply their faith with out concern and to offer their youngsters an excellent life.
I’m comfortable they aren’t right here to see the ugliness of the uniformed, armed and masked males taking up our streets. My dad and mom would have shortly 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 might 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 lads exterior Dwelling Depot have 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 try this. However carrying two or three weapons to confront a housekeeper is admittedly overkill.
Monty Armstrong, Irvine
