To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s column in regards to the Division of Homeland Safety’s “sanctuary cities” record was slightly entertaining (“Homeland Security’s ‘sanctuary city’ list is riddled with errors. The sloppiness is the point,” June 3). That Huntington Seashore and Santee are on it should have been a bit upsetting to these cities’ leaders.
However to make clear the cruelty side of what DHS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are doing: They’re not merely deporting folks they decide shouldn’t be on this nation (with out due course of). They’re deporting folks to areas the place they’ll expertise a larger probability of torture and loss of life. And so they’re doing this at an enormous taxpayer expense.
Wouldn’t deporting the folks again to their house nations, probably at a a lot decrease value, make extra sense? However evidently imperiling their lives is extra necessary than how a lot it prices. Actually American exceptionalism.
Les Hartzman, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Human lives, the Structure, her personal canine: It appears they’re all the identical to Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem. Get in her method and also you need to be destroyed. Cruelty is one level, to make certain. One other is the danger we absorb daring to problem the pinnacle of a Cupboard division that’s meant to guard, not endanger, us.
A lot for democracy.
Joan Walston, Santa Monica
