Letter to the Editor: Bad news

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On the TV fake news networks and in many leftist newspapers, violent criminal illegal immigrants, murderers, rapists, child molesters, human traffickers, etc., are portrayed as innocent victims of Trump’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations.
ICE agents are portrayed as “Gestapo” when they are, in reality, diligent, hard-working federal officials working to rid our streets of these violent foreign criminals, for which they should be praised not condemned. With all the slanted left wing bias reported against ICE, assaults on ICE agents are up over 800%.
Sadly, these dedicated agents are forced to don masks to conceal their identities, to prevent themselves from being doxxed by left-wingers, putting their lives and the lives of their families in danger.
Socialist Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, are pushing a bill requiring ICE agents to unmask. A bill which has little chance of passage. These same Democrats have no problem with radical leftist college protestors hiding their identities behind masks. Talk about hypocrisy.
Leftists are screaming about due process rights for apprehended illegals. Many illegals were given a court date to appear before an immigration judge, which they ignored and disappeared into the U.S. Any illegal ignoring their court date has forfeited their due process and is subject to immediate deportation.
These same leftists so concerned about illegals’ rights were unconcerned about the rights of peaceful protestors, who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2020, who committed no crimes but were arrested by the Joe Biden-Merrick Garland FBI “Gestapo” and imprisoned in dirty, unsanitary cells with absolutely no due process, until Trump pardoned and released them. These were American citizens with constitutional rights, not illegal immigrants.
The fake news allege illegals are being detained in inhumane conditions in the Florida Everglades at “Alligator Alcatraz,” exposed to snakes, mosquitoes and alligators. NewsMax and Fox News have shown this clearly is untrue. The cells are clean and detainees receive three square meals daily. No one should expect Waldorf-style accommodations. Detainees are in no danger from snakes, gators or mosquitoes, unless they escape into the Everglades.
Extreme radicals cheering for illegals over ICE probably cheer for Freddy Kruger in “Nightmare on Elm Street” or for the zombies in “Revenge of the Zombies,” etc.
These extreme radicals are small vocal minority, considering recent polling shows the majority of Americans support Trump’s detention, deportation illegal immigration policies. Bad news for Democrats.
Steve Wolverton
Parkersburg