Donald Trump and maga Republicans must support legal work permits policy to protect immigrant workers

On Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025, an incident in Glen Burnie, Maryland, involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents resulted in two undocumented men being injured.😠

Where is the sensible approach to immigration policy ❓

Echo opinion published in the Baltimore Sun newspaper:

If I were confronted by (evil❗ ) ICE agents, as were two unfortunate undocumented immigrants who were shot at in West Court in Glen Burnie Maryland, on Wednesday, I wouldn’t resist. 

If it were me, I would be confident in my safety and quick release because, as a U.S. citizen, I need not fear that I might face possible lifelong imprisonment in El Salvador. 

Sadly, if I were undocumented, like they were, my reaction would be very different. I would, like they did, make a break for it. To smash up several vehicles, to attempt to intimidate several ICE agents, to perhaps hurt someone or even to risk my own life, might well be the price I would deem worthy of paying (“2 injured as ICE agents shoot driver trying to run them down in Glen Burnie, officials say,” Dec. 24).

When an outrageous circumstance like this erupts, all of us should be asking two questions: What possible sense is there in our government’s articulating unseemly imprisonment punishments that encourage dangerous and excessive violence? And why do our legislators not enact a sensible guest workers program so that many of the illegals could be legal, and so that U.S. employers wouldn’t need to continue to be constantly skirting the law by hiring undocumented workers?

To answer the first question: Donald Trump's horrible personality has required that his pronouncements be "over the top" (stupid❗), because that enhances his preferred image as being (cruel😒), decisive and forceful. 

And, the answer to the second question, is that our congressmen and senators won’t act on the guest workers issue because they perceive that taking any stand at all on this might threaten their own re-election prospects. 

As long as our elected federal officials are hung up this way, there is no hope for badly needed improvement.

There is no indication, up to the present time, that either Donald Trump, or other elected federal officials, are about to change. Donald Trump is what he is, and most everyone else now in Congress is, for some reason, fearful about how speaking out will affect their careers. (Ugh❗)

So, it is up us, to the voters, to now to take charge and then vote in people who will deal with the issues. From— Jack Wickham, in Glen Arm, (Baltimore County) Maryland #VoteBlue