To the editor: I’ve been carefully following the latest unrest in Los Angeles and thought Mark Z. Barabak’s column was one of the best evaluation of President Trump’s mishandling of the protests in opposition to the ICE raids (“Putting the bully in bully pulpit, Trump escalates in L.A. rather than seeking calm,” June 9).
Barabak so appropriately wrote that Trump was “launching an assault on the Structure and the boundaries of presidential energy.” By way of the 2 topics of the “bully pulpit” and presidential powers, I’m baffled why pundits within the media have but to level out an omission in Trump’s harsh anti-illegal-immigrant agenda. If he’s so hardline in opposition to undocumented migrants who break legal guidelines to return right here, why hasn’t he used his pulpit and his presidential energy to honor all the potential immigrants in Mexico and the Central American international locations who’ve gone via the correct channels by obeying the immigration legal guidelines and have been on ready lists for a number of years to return to the U.S.?
With the stroke of a pen, he may grant them computerized inexperienced playing cards and a quick monitor to citizenship for obeying our immigration legal guidelines, which might in impact profit his personal public uncompromising stance in opposition to undocumented immigrants. The underside line is that Trump is ignoring a coverage that will truly spotlight his administration’s stance on adhering to authorized immigration.
Salvador Montoya Ortega, Bakersfield
