To the editor: I can’t recover from the Los Angeles Instances’ front-page picture of the masked Border Patrol brokers (“‘Who are these people?’ Masked immigration agents challenge local police, sow fear in L.A.,” June 24). I’m the daughter of immigrants and an immigrant myself. My mother and father survived the Holocaust and a childhood of hate towards them for being Jewish. They got here to the USA for the chance it could present them to stay free, to follow their faith with out concern and to provide their kids life.
I’m comfortable they aren’t right here to see the ugliness of the uniformed, armed and masked males taking up our streets. My mother and father would have shortly been reminded of their previous. What I see within the image are dictatorships and authoritarian regimes. I don’t see a democracy. I shake my head and ask, “Why?”
Esther Friedberg, Studio Metropolis
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To the editor: Given the image on the entrance web page, one may very well be satisfied that Immigration and Customs Enforcement goes after the “worst of the worst.” However have we seen or heard about any of that? I by no means feared {that a} gardener in my neighborhood was hiding an AK-47 in his garden mower or that the boys exterior Dwelling Depot had been armed and able to confront ICE. And you realize what? We’ve seen no proof that such threats exist.
If federal authorities say they’re going after the worst, then they need to try this. However carrying two or three weapons to confront a housekeeper is actually overkill.
Monty Armstrong, Irvine
