To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s column in regards to the Division of Homeland Safety’s “sanctuary cities” checklist was a bit 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 facet 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 are going to expertise a higher probability of torture and dying. And so they’re doing this at an enormous taxpayer expense.
Wouldn’t deporting the folks again to their dwelling nations, possible at a a lot decrease value, make extra sense? However it appears that evidently imperiling their lives is extra necessary than how a lot it prices. Really 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 means and also you need to be destroyed. Cruelty is one level, to make sure. One other is the chance we absorb daring to problem the top of a Cupboard division that’s meant to guard, not endanger, us.
A lot for democracy.
Joan Walston, Santa Monica
