March 9, 2018
Rep. Dana
Rohrabacher,
101 Main
Street #380
Huntington
Beach, CA 92648
Dear
Congressman,
Re:
Momentous disruption
I read
the press release in which you heaped praise on Attorney General Jeff Sessions
for coming to California to announce legal action against the state for its
opposition to the Trump administration’s draconian actions in the matter of
immigration.
In you
release, with wild hyperbole, you speak of a “momentous disruption of the lives
and wellbeing of everyday Americans thrust upon us by illegal immigrants.” I
would like to you back up such statements with evidence of this “momentous
disruption.” From where I stand, I have seen none, especially not in your own
district in Orange County.
What I
see instead is ample evidence of momentous disruption in the lives of
well-intentioned, tax-paying and generally law-abiding citizens—particularly,
of course, those protected until recently by Obama’s eminently sensible
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), the so-called
“Dreamers.” Quite apart from them, however, I see nightly television news
reports of fathers and other long-time citizens snatched by ICE officers from
families and held indefinitely in detainment centers or simply deported with no
hearing or appeal.
The
Attorney General of the United States, in my opinion, has better things to do
than to enforce unjust, unworkable and often cruel laws. The State of
California has integrity, decency, and simple humanity on its side.
Respectfully,
Peter
Clothier, Ph.D.
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