Stop the madness in Minnesota
Deporting criminal immigrants and catching up with all the illegal crossings from the last few years had our support when the U.S. started this process a year ago. What was intended as an aggressive but lawful process has devolved into tactics which are jaw-dropping and reprehensible. But the real crime is our elected or appointed leaders, labelling victims terrorists where no evidence of that exists, and defending the indefensible. These tactics and the lying defense of this level of violence and lack of due process must stop.
The killing of Minnesota ICU nurse Alex Pretti, in addition to the killing of Renee Good, warrantless violent arrests and armed home invasions by masked government agents and the violent treatment of peaceful protesters is all counter to American rights of due process. Hey, everyone here is presumed innocent until proven guilty, right?
President Trump has shown no hesitation in the past to fire those who violate our trust or make him look bad, and he can defuse the whole situation by doing a few things, quickly:
Fire Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security — her defense of the indefensible has violated our trust and rendered her useless. Demand revised ICE tactics which protect American rights of due process. And promise cooperation with local authorities in the investigations of any criminal acts by ICE officers. It wouldn’t hurt to take the darned masks off and implement body cameras but that’s probably too reasonable to ask.
It’s time to show real leadership, and stop the madness.
Collin Braynard Maitland
Minnesota raids are pure retribution
Let’s do a little analysis of estimates of undocumented immigrants in this country and where ICE is focusing, based on instructions from the current administration:
Red state Texas has an estimated 2.5 million undocumented immigrants.
Red state Florida has an estimated 1.6 million undocumented immigrants.
Minnesota, a blue state, has an estimated 130,000 undocumented immigrants.
It seems this effort is not about finding illegal immigrants. This is retribution politics at its worst.
Larry D. Davis Longwood
Bondi needs to probe Hope Florida
With widespread reporting of the Hope Florida sham operation connected to Casey DeSantis and its well-documented diversion of taxpayer money used for political purposes, one must wonder where Pam Bondi and her Department of Justice sleuths are. All she has to do is subscribe to the local papers and it appears in black and white. The $10 million that came from the settlement that Centene agreed to pay back did not go back to the Florida Medicaid recipients. The DeSantis family and Florida State Attorney General James Uthmeier are named in the reporting as having been involved in the cash diversion. Where is Bondi, with her bombastic press conferences? Oh, I see. Her rage is only directed towards Democratic states and cities. Republican states are free to divert and steal taxpayer money without penalty. What goes around comes around.
PJ Whelan Orlando
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