To the editor: For all of the media protection and hypothesis concerning the incoming Republican administration’s promise to deport unauthorized immigrants, California’s anticipated resistance is questionable on many ranges. (“As mass deportations loom, ICE eyeing new detention facility in California,” Dec. 7)
Performing with high-profile defiance, state Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta makes use of terminology like “California values” and “tradition of worry and distrust.” Gov. Gavin Newsom has requested the state Legislature to put aside $25 million in taxpayer cash for potential authorized battles towards the incoming Trump administration, which is able to in all probability embody fights over immigration. That’s on high of the billions that unauthorized immigration already prices us.
Are we speculated to belief our state leaders that any of that is price the price? Are they politicking for his or her future? There’s additionally the perennial query requested by law-abiding U.S. residents: What about legal guidelines that make it a criminal offense to enter the U.S. with out permission?
Who amongst us wouldn’t reside in “worry and distrust” if we have been topic to arrest and punishment over breaking federal legislation? How do “California values” embody harboring lawbreakers?
Raymond Roth, Oceanside
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To the editor: If President-elect Donald Trump strikes forward along with his plan to deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants, you will need to know if his claims about them are true or not. Right here’s a small a part of what the Immigration Initiative at Harvard discovered in 2022:
- Two-thirds of undocumented immigrants have been within the U.S. for greater than 10 years. Greater than 6 million have U.S.-born kids who’re residents.
- Forty-seven p.c of immigrants arriving within the final 5 years are college-educated.
- Much less-educated immigrants work the place there are labor shortages in low-skilled jobs.
- Immigrants have a lot decrease crime charges than native-born People.
- Undocumented immigrants pay federal, state and native taxes throughout the U.S.
- Immigration reduces the price of little one care, development, meals and home cleansing.
- Immigrants usually tend to begin new companies. They personal 25% of recent companies and make use of nearly 8 million People.
Given all the advantages immigrants deliver to the U.S., the query must be requested: What are the advantages of deporting them?
Richie Locasso, Hemet
