To the editor: I can’t recover from the Los Angeles Occasions’ 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 dad and mom survived the Holocaust and a childhood of hate towards them for being Jewish. They got here to the USA for the chance it might present them to dwell free, to apply their faith with out worry and to present their youngsters a great life.
I’m glad they aren’t right here to see the ugliness of the uniformed, armed and masked males taking up our streets. My dad and mom would have rapidly 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 could possibly 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 outdoors Residence Depot had been armed and able to confront ICE. And you recognize 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 absolutely overkill.
Monty Armstrong, Irvine
