To the editor: In Monday’s Los Angeles Occasions, a letter author asserted that her Latino housekeeper and gardener aren’t afraid of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids as a result of they got here right here legally (“Letters to the Editor: Two readers disagree over claims of racial profiling in ICE raids,” June 27).
In the identical difficulty, there was a narrative a few Korean-born man who additionally got here right here legally and is a U.S. citizen (“L.A. Army veteran with Purple Heart self-deports to South Korea under threat of deportation,” June 27). He deported himself as a result of he was underneath risk of deportation attributable to practically 20-year-old drug convictions.
Little doubt the letter author would level out that her housekeeper and gardener haven’t damaged any legal guidelines. However that misses the purpose.
The purpose is that within the present local weather, if somebody in authority decides that they need your housekeeper or gardener otherwise you in a foreign country, they’ll discover a strategy to do it.
Grinnell Almy, Los Angeles
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To the editor: OK, I confess that my ancestors had been unlawful immigrants. They squatted right here with out permission on land that was not their very own. They introduced lethal illnesses the locals had by no means seen earlier than. They claimed to be refugees, however by no means registered with anybody, by no means bought a inexperienced card and completely refused to go away.
When did they arrive? In 1620 on the Mayflower. Gee, possibly I ought to self-deport. I hear England’s good this time of yr.
Katharine Waitman, Los Angeles
