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ICE raids are targeting
hard-working people
Our long-time family gardener reported that he would miss a scheduled service today because he stopped for food at the In-N-Out Burger near Tully and Capitol, where he was confronted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who asked for his passport. My gardener responded that he doesn’t carry it when he is working. He assured them he has legal paperwork. I have no reason to doubt this.
This is a hard-working business owner. He tries to do everything right, which I can attest to. Eventually, ICE let him go. I felt terrible about this. This is brazen abuse of power. My gardener was stopped only because of skin color.
It’s been five months of the new regime in the White House, but it seems much longer. I pray to God that He helps our country find a way to stop this madness.
Paul Rosati
San Jose
Networks should not
cave to Trump’s suits
Donald Trump should not receive one red cent from CBS.
He was invited onto “60 Minutes” along with Kamala Harris. He declined. Then he filed a ridiculous lawsuit claiming that the Harris interview was edited to make him look bad.
Media outlets should not acquiesce to him. CBS did nothing wrong. Why reward Trump with a huge settlement because the journalists were doing their job and he didn’t like it? Such action is a threat to freedom of the press. It will give Trump the idea that the media will be wary about what they write or say about him. He has already set his sights on the Pulitzer Prize board because they did not rescind a prize like he thought they should.
He needs to learn that he cannot control everything. The press should adamantly oppose his effort to muzzle them.
Terrele Schumake
San Jose
Trump’s chaos in L.A.
distracts from failing rule
As Donald Trump ramps up his attacks on Los Angeles and California for his political purposes, it reminds me that the real purpose of many right-wing governments is to put their populace into a state of constant and never-ending emergency to seize ever more control.
While I’m sure it’s more tense in the immediate vicinity, as a resident of the state, this is all a yawn and a distraction. The only emergency is that these Republican demagogues are in power in the first place, and everything else they do and latch onto is a distraction from that truth.
Mathew Clark
Campbell
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Trump’s actions expose
lie of a Christian nation
Regardless of whether you support President Trump’s continued actions, we all must now acknowledge that the argument over whether we are a Christian nation has been answered.
If we now ask, “What would Jesus do?,” I think he’d stand beside our Founding Fathers, shocked at what we have become.
Shame on the American voters.
David Wilkins
San Jose
Walters goes to lengths
to attack Newsom
Re: “Trump-Newsom clash over protests feeds their interests” (Page A6, June 11).
Columnist Dan Walters is always sharply criticizing Gov. Gavin Newsom for one thing or another. Walters’ enmity toward Newsom is readily apparent in every column he writes.
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The latest example of this vitriol to all things Newsom was evident in his column on June 11, in which Walters equated Trump’s aggressive actions in Los Angeles to Newsom’s appropriate outrage towards Trump’s inflammatory actions. Walters severely criticized Newsom in detail for having the gall to call out Trump’s terrible and unnecessary response to protests in L.A., while barely mentioning Trump’s actions with little context.
Walters attacks Newsom in just about every column he writes, while mostly ignoring the Trump administration’s many transgressions.
David Pitton
San Jose