To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s column in regards to the Division of Homeland Safety’s “sanctuary cities” listing was a bit entertaining (“Homeland Safety’s ‘sanctuary metropolis’ listing is riddled with errors. The sloppiness is the purpose,” 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 side 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 places the place they’ll expertise a larger likelihood of torture and loss of life. And so they’re doing this at an enormous taxpayer expense.
Wouldn’t deporting the folks again to their dwelling international locations, probably at a a lot decrease value, make extra sense? However evidently imperiling their lives is extra essential than how a lot it prices. Actually 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 method and also you should be destroyed. Cruelty is one level, to make sure. One other is the chance we soak up 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
