To the editor: Anybody who watched the video of landscaper Narciso Barranco being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers noticed that Homeland Safety Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin merely lied in her declare that minimal drive was used (“Father of three Marines crushed by masked federal brokers, set to be launched from immigration facility,” July 11). Her suggestion that this middle-aged gardener with a garden edger by some means posed a risk to half a dozen closely armed federal brokers is past preposterous. However that’s the soupe du jour of this administration daily now: lie, double down on the lie, then accuse your accuser of getting a political agenda or being “pretend information.”
Sure, Barranco entered America illegally within the ‘90s on the lookout for a greater life — against the law, by the way in which, made simpler by a rustic that actively regarded the opposite manner. He then proceeded to reside a life anybody may very well be happy with, working onerous, paying taxes, having three sons within the Marines and by no means breaking one other regulation. We’re a nation of immigrants. It’s time to honor them somewhat than terrorize them.
Bart Braverman, Indio
