Republicans wrongfully support Trumpian mass deportations will put all Americans at risk for deportation

Echo opinion letters published in The New York Times: 

Dear Editor:  Although President Biden has promised a smooth transition for Donald Trump after this election, we Americans should take strong steps, including mass protests and smart political strategies to oppose and stop all efforts of the Trump administration to conduct mass deportations of immigrants.

The New Colossus:  "Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breath free", Emma Lazarus

The former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and now Trump’s choice to be “border czar,” Thomas Homan, said that immigrants can avoid the horrific family separation by being deported together. I guess he means that those immigrants who are here legally can choose to leave the U.S. with children and relatives who are being deported.

We Americans who value justice, liberty and morality must oppose and fight against the ruthless and fiendish plans of Mr. Trump and his acolytes, who have little respect for the traditional values of our great nation. The time to fight for justice is now, and powerful and peaceful protests should start now so Mr. Trump knows what he faces when he takes office.

From: J. Gorman in Queens, New York
The writer is a retired New York Police Department lieutenant

To the Editor:  How will government officers find all those undocumented immigrants they plan to round up in the largest mass deportation of immigrants in American history❓

Undocumented immigrants look no different than anyone else walking down the street. Which means that you and I — all 345 million of us in this country — are subject to being stopped and forced to prove we are here legally.

To limit the field, officers may be forced to stop only people who look “foreign.” Of course, many people born here look “foreign.” Many people who are foreign don’t look foreign. Will courts allow profiling based on appearance?

When we are stopped, how will we even prove we are legal so we can stay out of the planned detention camps? We all don’t go around with immigration or naturalization papers. We don’t all have passports. I don’t carry ID unless I’m driving, drinking or using the AARP discount. My only proof is my birth certificate, which I can’t even find.

Even if courts say it is legal to stop anyone for any reason, how long would Americans put up with their own government harassing them?

The government may try to ease the pain by setting up offices in every city and requiring everyone to go there with proof of citizenship. Employees will then issue us cards to carry at all times to show officers. Or the government might force us to get tattoos on our arms or foreheads so we won’t even have to be stopped.

Mass deportation will encroach on our liberty. But the sacrifice will be worth it to rid America of the scourge of “illegals,”, so Trump will tell us. If you are legal, he’ll say, you shouldn’t mind having your rights violated.

From Joe Kollin in Lake Worth, Fla.

To the Editor:  I have some questions for those who favor mass deportation:

Do you grow your own food❓ Do you kill, gut and process the beef cattle, hogs, poultry and fish yourself❓

After the men, women and children, who do these jobs are deported, will you step up❓ Will you❓ (Maine Writer:😔 IDTS)

Food for thought.🍲🥘🥫

From: Florence England in Kansas City, Missouri.

Maine Writer post script:  All Americans who are not Native Americans are here today because we have immigrant ancestors.  Suppose we cannot prove where our parents were born....❓❓❓