Mass deportations of innocent immigrants became a campaign strategy by the Donald Trump Nazi regime

Echo opinion letter published in the Los Angeles Times:

Donald Trump's mass deportation plans will ensnare U.S. citizens and tear the nation apart-Huffington Post

To the editor: Wait, what❓ A national emergency to carry out mass deportations❓ (“Trump confirms deportation strategy will include national emergency declaration and military,” Nov. 18)

If that is the case, and if President-elect Trump, if he is a national leader really believed it, he would have supported the conservative plan proposed by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) earlier this year to begin to address that emergency.

But no❗ Trump didn’t want the problem solved. Instead, he wanted to campaign on it.

Why would I believe that he wants to solve the border problem now❓ Getting the military involved — a legally problematic strategy — would just allow him to accrue more dictatorial power.

How much will this cost the taxpayers? And once accomplished, what would be the cost to our economy? Millions of jobs may be left vacant with no one to fill them.

As a preview, we can look to China and Japan. For different reasons, their birthrates do not support the economy they want. 

If what I read is accurate, we are in a similar boat, yet what helps keep us prosperous is immigration, legal and illegal.

From William Elmelund, West Hollywood, California

Deadly gun violence continues while Republicans ignore protective actions

Los Angeles Times opinion echoes readers write about uncontrolled gun violence: "shame on us".  

To the editor: None of us can claim to be shocked anymore when one of these “2nd Amendment celebrations” known as mass shootings occur. (“Terror at Monterey Park dance studio: What we know about Lunar New Year mass shooting,” Jan. 22, 2023)

A reasonable person would have expected something to have been done after after 6- and 7-year-olds were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. But no.

The thing is, in the United States, these horrendous shootings are acceptable. If they weren’t acceptable, we wouldn’t accept them. 

But, somehow, unbelievably, we do.

Shame on us❗

From William Elmelund, West Hollywood

And this.....To the editor: “This kind of thing doesn’t happen in my neighborhood,” one individual in Monterey Park was quoted as saying. This is a statement that has been repeated after so many mass shootings.

Another person revealed that he started carrying a gun with him after a Texas mass shooting, evidently in the belief that we can stop gun violence by arming ourselves.

The probability of a mass shooting in any of our neighborhoods is high. We need to realize this and work on a solution.

Conversely, the likelihood of solving this tragic problem by carrying more guns is low. More gun possession in our communities increases the probability of violence.

We, as imperfect human beings, possess lethal weapons that are being used to kill ourselves and others with a frequency that is terrifying. From Joan Horn in Carlsbad, California.

Maine Writer- Republicans refuse to accept the undisputable fact that guns cause death. Therefore, gun violence is preventable.