Nov. 17, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: Immigration brokers aggressively detained a day-care employee, Diana Santillana Galeano, at her office with babies current (“Chicago day-care worker detained by immigration agents released after community support,” Nov. 13). Couldn’t they’ve waited till she was residence? Would possibly they’ve given her time to organize for her arrest and separation from her household? She was handled like a harmful legal, “the worst of the worst” as President Trump declares.
Individuals are largely individuals who worth equity, and this sort of unnecessarily violent arrest is just not honest. Even when somebody helps a common immigration sweep, it needs to be dealt with humanely and pretty, and folks needs to be handled with fundamental human dignity.
Sadly, this specific arrest just isn’t a one-off exception to the overall coverage. The newsworthy raid on the apartment building in Chicago, which the federal authorities justified by calling it a raid on Tren de Aragua, might have netted a few gang members. Nevertheless it additionally disrupted the lives of everybody within the constructing.
Santillana Galeano was legally working and was finally launched, as a number of inappropriately arrested individuals have been. This sort of typically intrusive and unfair course of is just not American.
Dan Hennessy, Arcadia
