LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Creating Havoc in Democratic Cities
I understand why some people voted for Mr. Trump, particularly on immigration. I agree that immigration is an important issue, but I disagree with Mr. Trump’s approach. Immigration was a mess under Mr. Biden. But there was a bipartisan attempt to fix immigration in the Spring 2024; Mr. Trump killed that. Republicans control the presidency and Congress; why haven’t they addressed immigration reform?
Instead, they are going into mostly Democratically controlled cities and states and creating havoc. They say they are there to protect the public from unlawful immigrants who are rapists and murders, but it’s mostly a reality-show made for Fox News. They have detained U.S. citizens, they have physically abused lawful protesters, used a five-year-old child as bait to lure someone out of their house, and now they are killing protesters.
In May, ICE issued a secret directive to its agents saying it was OK to break into someone’s home if they think there might be unlawful immigrants there.
They do so without a search warrant signed by a judge. This is in direct violation of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. Add this to violating protesters’ 1st Amendment rights of free speech and assembly, and last Saturday, the 2nd Amendment rights of a protester in Minnesota who was legally carrying a handgun, which was taken from him, and then he was shot 10 times as he lay on the ground.
