A dragnet is the wrong way to treat immigrants
New Rochelle, N.Y.: There is a mass immigration deportation process in place nationwide in the U.S.A. As we all know, President Trump promised that there would be mass deportation of undocumented immigrants and people who have committed crimes in our communities.
It’s very easy to say, “Deport all undocumented immigrants.” However, there are also honest and very hard-working people who contribute to this great nation. I do not feel sorry for criminals who came here to put a bad name to immigrants.
I also feel bad for those who served in the military and don’t have a place to live. I did not vote for Joe Biden or Trump. I do not understand why Biden allowed so many criminals through the southern border.
By the way, I want to see how many non-immigrants (American-born) will be doing “nontraditional work,” such as picking tomatoes, vegetables, etc. I want to see non-immigrants working 12-hour shifts in the sun.
Also, no one is an immigrant on stolen land.
What’s really sad is that immigrants who have their documentation in order are the ones who are actually celebrating people being deported. There is a morbid sense of pleasure among the so-called legal immigrants who see people’s miseries and despair as something pleasurable. There is an old saying: Never forget where you come from. Humanity’s feelings are lost when we think we have everything. Oscar J. Martinez
Moral failure
Floral Park, L.I.: It was pathetic that Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the New York diocese didn’t have anything to say about his friend in the White House. Aren’t you supposed to defend the immigration of people to America? Regina Rossi
Pointed apology
Bronx: To Voicer John Procida: You are right, Bishop Mariann Budde should apologize to Trump. She should tell him, “I’m sorry that you are an un-Christian, heartless megalomaniac.” W. Twirley
Protection selection
Manhattan: To Voicer John Procida: When you say that Trump has an obligation to protect all American citizens, do you mean by pardoning and releasing back into the streets violent criminals who attacked police officers at our nation’s Capitol? Please clarify. Frank Teti
Immoral alien
Yonkers: I was not surprised to read and hear from his apologists/enablers/cheerleaders that Elon Musk’s inaugural “salutes” were simply the unbridled exuberance of an autistic/Asperger’s man-child, an opinion I do not share. It was a Nazi salute. Given Musk’s address to Germany’s far-right party, it’s time to call him what he is: an unrepentant child of South African apartheid and racism, an embracer of Nazism and an all-around example of how not to be remotely human. We’d be better off if he’d self-deport himself to Mars. Evan Marc London
Pro-Trump sins forgiven
Astoria: Pettiness, cruelty and revenge have the quintessential poster boy in Orange Herr Trump. For those who say to get over it and support him and his agenda, the double standard is glaring! If Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden or any other Democrats encouraged storming the Capitol and trying to overthrow the results of a fair election, these same “patriots” would call for imprisonment or worse. How do you still believe he wants the best for the citizens of America when he pardons those who attack and harm police officers, etc.? He claims he is a champion of law and order as he skirts any accountability as a convicted felon. This sits fine with you? His cabinet choices are contrary to any semblance of a humanitarian agenda. They are about being loyal to him and not the people of our country! Karen N. Pearlman
Getting busy
Queens Village: Trump has shown more energy in four days than Biden did in four years — or, for that matter, any other president. Frank Barnett
That didn’t take long
Staten Island: The fired inspectors general were “federal watchdogs who are tasked with monitoring for waste, fraud, abuse and misconduct.” It’s incredible what this administration can get away with. The firings weren’t even legal. Do something, Congress. The convicted felon who was impeached twice his first time in office wastes no time in breaking the law again, multiple times. No one is surprised. When do the impeachment hearings begin? Michael Rosenkrantz
Objectively beautiful
Brooklyn: I don’t care what you think about politics, Melania Trump is gorgeous. You can’t deny it. Stop the hate. We are getting so childish on both sides. It’s really embarrassing. It’s boring. Get a better hobby. Mariann Tepedino
Seek balance
Staten Island: Monday’s Voice of the People had 16 letters, 12 of which were anti-Trump and four of general content. What goes on here? Are there no pro-Trump letters that are printable or even considered? The News should print both sides of the readership’s thoughts and comments. Perhaps the editorial staff should keep an open and unbiased mind and let readers read both sides of all opinions, whether you agree or not. Michael Modafferi
Just getting started
Levittown, L.I.: Thank you, President Trump, for all you have done or started. To all the nonbelievers who are complaining that he hasn’t solved inflation or other problems we have: He has only been in office for a week and he doesn’t have a magic wand to fix everything. Give him time. He has accomplished more than his predecessor did in four years, or 50-plus years of a political career. All in due time; the best is yet to come. Give him a fair chance before you ridicule him. George O’Neill
Conditional conditioning
Manhattan: Voicer John Lemandri trumpets Trump’s recommendations and conditions for aid to California, promoting the absurd idea that the technology is available to counter the 100-mph Santa Ana winds that spread the devastating fire in the first place. Of course, Trump is the foremost scientific authority in the world on how to counter the effects of climate-change-induced weather phenomena such as droughts, hurricanes and 100-mph winds. After all, Trump has recommended that a nuclear bomb be dropped into the eye of hurricanes to forestall their devastating effects. Interesting how the right-wing faithful did not propose any conditions on states that suffered traumatic climate-change-induced weather-related devastation to red states during Biden’s administration. Once again, and as usual, the right-wing crowd can’t wait to expose their hypocrisy whenever the opportunity arises. Joseph Kay
Paying its way
Larchmont, N.Y.: To Voicer John Lemandri: Like most blue states, Californians pay more in federal taxes than they received back in federal funding. As a matter of fact, California paid $83 billion more in federal taxes than it received back. They paid almost $600 billion to the IRS. The $2.5 billion the state is requesting to help with the wildfire damage is actually its own money. I’ve read that several Republican politicians are recommending that any funds sent to California be sent with “strings” attached. Maybe California should attach strings to the taxes it sends to Washington. Steve Michaud
Take the lead
Bay Shore, L.I.: Thank you again for a graphic reminder of the climate breakdown that’s threatening us right now (“Cost of natural disasters soared last year in U.S.,” Jan. 25). Trump wants to strip Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy initiatives and to “drill, baby, drill” dirty emissions into the world’s atmosphere. By contrast, China is forging ahead in building and exporting solar panels and affordable EVs. When climate breakdown finally whacks heads hard enough for their owners to grasp what’s happening, which country will emerge as the world’s climate caretaker and leader? In short, Trump will have ceded world leadership to China. Gov. Hochul, by contrast, must return to leading our state with further creative, aggressive blows to climate breakdown: She must lead on the NY HEAT Act and follow through with the ready-to-roll cap-and-invest plan. That would be New York exceptionalism! David Bissoon
Held up
Massapequa Park, L.I.: Who does the MTA think it’s fooling? I was on a bus Saturday going from Seventh Ave. and 50th St. to 34th St. It took 40 minutes to go 16 blocks. If it wasn’t so cold, I would’ve walked it in half the time. Remember to vote in November. Thomas Facchiano
