To the editor: Anybody who watched the video of landscaper Narciso Barranco being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers noticed that Homeland Safety Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin merely lied in her declare that minimal pressure was used (“Father of three Marines beaten by masked federal agents, set to be released from immigration facility,” July 11). Her suggestion that this middle-aged gardener with a garden edger by some means posed a menace to half a dozen closely armed federal brokers is past preposterous. However that’s the soupe du jour of this administration daily now: lie, double down on the lie, then accuse your accuser of getting a political agenda or being “pretend information.”
Sure, Barranco entered America illegally within the ‘90s searching for a greater life — against the law, by the best way, made simpler by a rustic that actively regarded the opposite method. He then proceeded to dwell a life anybody may very well be pleased with, working arduous, paying taxes, having three sons within the Marines and by no means breaking one other regulation. We’re a nation of immigrants. It’s time to honor them somewhat than terrorize them.
Bart Braverman, Indio
