Why I don’t support ICE detention facilities

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OPINION — I have lived in Arizona for 72 years and in my 72 years, I have lived in neighborhoods and gone to school and church with Mexican Americans. I did not ask them if they came here legally or illegally because I didn’t care. They were hard-working people trying to make a good living for their family.

Has the woman who told us how good the conditions are in ICE detention facilities been in one? Where is she getting her information? What I see and hear on bipartisan news media is not anywhere close to the truth.

Also, the gentleman who questioned the phrase, “concentration camps.” What would he call a place where hundreds of people are confined without a trial? Do we not remember what our government did to Japanese Americans during WWII?

History is repeating itself. Do we never learn how cruel it is to treat human beings this way?

The original purpose of deportation was to deport the worst, but that is not what is happening. I agreed at first when we were told only the worst of the worst were to be deported. But we are deporting people who are looking for a better life for their families. They do jobs many Americans feel are beneath them.

We might as well send the Statue of Liberty back to France because the words don’t appear to mean anything these days.

U.S. immigration laws make it hard for people to come in legally. Some are doing exactly what they are required to do but are being picked up outside their hearings for citizenship.

Everyone has the right to their opinion, but praising ICE agents who have killed several Americans is morally wrong in my book.

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