{"id":117260,"date":"2026-01-30T11:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117260\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:25:19","slug":"ice-agents-deserve-the-prayers-of-religious-leaders-not-condemnation-letter-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117260\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE agents deserve the prayers of religious leaders. Not condemnation (letter to the editor)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Staten Island religious leaders have expressed dismay<\/a> at what they describe as ICE agents\u2019 violent behavior.<\/p>\n

They cited examples: the tragic deaths of Nicole Good, Alexi Prette and Keith Porter. These cases are under intensive review by authorities without incendiary screeds spewing from our political leaders.<\/p>\n

What the religious signatories forgot to mention are the violent murders of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student; Kay Hamilton, 20, and 12-year-old Maria Gonzalez \u2014 all slain by illegal immigrants\u2019 violent behavior.<\/p>\n

Pope Leo is troubled by America disrespecting immigrants.<\/p>\n

America has been most generous caring for the flood of illegals that Biden allowed in this country. They had received financial help, shelter, food, medicine, schooling, attorney services and hospital care. This cost the American taxpayer millions. Show me another country matching American compassion.<\/p>\n

The American voter overwhelmingly wants illegals deported in a humane fashion.<\/p>\n

Yes, we are a nation of immigrants. But we came legally and respected American laws. And we welcome new immigrants who abide by our laws.<\/p>\n

ICE has the dangerous and unenviable job of removing those who flout those laws, causing mayhem in our cities.<\/p>\n

ICE has been under attack by left wing radicals, Marxists and also deserve the prayers of our religious leaders.<\/p>\n

(Joseph Valente is a South Beach resident.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staten Island religious leaders have expressed dismay at what they describe as ICE agents\u2019 violent behavior. They cited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-117260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}