To the editor: Just a little greater than a 12 months in the past, President Trump’s homeland safety advisor, Stephen Miller, stated that he had a aim of three,000 arrests by immigration brokers per day. Now, the Los Angeles Occasions is reporting that just about 50,000 folks had been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in July, elevating a number of questions in my thoughts (“ICE arrests jumped to nearly 50,000 in July, the highest monthly total of Trump’s second term,” Aug. 25).
What proportion of those arrests concerned youngsters? What number of of these arrested have been deported as of at the moment and to which international locations? By state, the place are these nonetheless in custody being held? What’s the month-to-month value of housing an grownup? Likewise, a toddler? What’s the common size of keep in detention? What proportion of detainees had prior prison convictions? What number of detainees have been launched with out additional motion? What number of have appeared earlier than an immigration choose whereas in custody?
The American public wants solutions to those and different questions. Investigative journalists ought to be pursuing this data.
Noel Johnson, Glendale
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To the editor: Whereas pursuing his immigration crackdown, Trump promised that ICE would discover and deport solely “the worst of the worst.” Now we learn tales of households torn aside when a law-abiding younger resident or growing older grandparent is hunted down in horrifying element.
Now, a Occasions headline informs us that ICE arrests jumped to almost 50,000 in July. If Trump believes arresting (and doubtlessly deporting) 50,000 folks every month is eradicating “the worst of the worst,” then he has a distorted image of our great nation.
Ted Bacino, Palm Springs
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To the editor: I’ve loads of reactions once I learn the paper. Typically I snort, generally I’m indignant, generally I’m curious. However till now, I’ve by no means been so emotionally affected by a narrative that I really cried.
My coronary heart goes out to the six individuals who refused to get off the airplane in Liberia, had been apparently instructed they had been being taken again to the U.S. and located themselves in Equatorial Guinea, the place they’d be sequestered in a lodge with poor situations (“Deportees who refused to exit a U.S. flight in Liberia are sent to Equatorial Guinea,” Aug. 24). I’m haunted by the considered the person with a colostomy bag despatched into that scenario. I’m additionally ashamed and infuriated to suppose that a few of my tax {dollars} are paying for this.
Rose Leibowitz, Studio Metropolis
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To the editor: The plight of U.S. Military Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez is yet one more sickening and past absurd story brought on by Trump’s rampage in opposition to migrants who haven’t perfected their authorized standing to stay within the nation (“Wife of active-duty Army sergeant is deported to Honduras under Trump’s immigration crackdown,” Aug. 25). Turcios Juarez, along with his spouse deported to Honduras, should now honor his navy obligation whereas caring alone for his or her 6-year-old daughter.
Within the nation for 10 years with no prison document, Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo was apparently not notified of a elimination listening to in 2017, and the couple solely discovered about her deportation order after marrying in 2022. Looking for obtainable treatments and hoping to stick with her husband and daughter (each residents), she was scooped up and despatched again to Honduras.
The ache and struggling prompted to a law-abiding household far outweighs any logical or justifiable necessity to kick out a mom and spouse who was making an attempt to excellent her residency within the supposed land of the free. It’s past hope that the president would care the slightest in regards to the undeserved destruction of lives his mass deportation insurance policies are inflicting (largely in opposition to minorities) at the moment. However possibly others within the administration or Congress may take a step again and notice these actions are the antitheses of a free and first rate America during which law-abiding residents and repair members ought to be accommodated and thanked, not punished and handled like animals or violent criminals.
Victor Salerno, Los Angeles
