To the editor: I can’t recover from the Los Angeles Occasions’ front-page picture of the masked Border Patrol brokers (“‘Who’re these folks?’ Masked immigration brokers problem native police, sow concern 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 america for the chance it could present them to reside free, to observe their faith with out concern and to provide their youngsters a great life.
I’m pleased they aren’t right here to see the ugliness of the uniformed, armed and masked males taking on 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 may very well 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 exterior House Depot had been armed and able to confront ICE. And you understand what? We’ve seen no proof that such threats exist.
If federal authorities say they’re going after the worst, then they need to do this. However carrying two or three weapons to confront a housekeeper is actually overkill.
Monty Armstrong, Irvine
