Dec. 2, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: A just lately revealed article documenting the political get together divide over Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids initiated throughout President Trump’s second time period in workplace highlights the very divisive nature of the presidential program (“Californians sharply divided along partisan lines about immigration raids, poll finds,” Nov. 26).
In the end, the aim of the deportation effort is twofold: one, to take away immigrants who gained entry to america illegally and two, to cease such illegal border-crossing totally. Each of those goals hover across the comical and draw close to to the delusional. Individuals will all the time discover a strategy to get round a barrier.
The medical mannequin of treating illness outlined to me by my lecturers years in the past completely explains why that is so.
In medication, college students are instructed to type out signs from trigger and to focus their efforts on the latter. Giving a toddler treatment for an ear an infection that merely alleviates the painful symptom, fairly than an antibiotic for a bacterial trigger, is a working example.
Equally, expelling immigrants is solely treating the symptom. The trigger stays that the surroundings from which these folks come just isn’t supportive of the kind of life they need to present for his or her spouses, their youngsters and for themselves. America does present it. Greater than 100 years in the past, my grandparents left Tsarist Russia looking for the Golden Land for his or her households and so they by no means seemed again.
Do you need to cease unlawful immigration? Do no matter is critical to lift the usual of residing within the nations from which immigrants come. Deal with trigger, not symptom.
Bruce Littman, Porter Ranch
