"MOMENTOUS DISRUPTION"?

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.