Letters

What’s incredible is that The Sag Harbor Express chose to gaslight the community that school districts should brace for ICE raids [“School Officials Are Dealing With Anxieties and Uncertainty When It Comes to New Immigration Policies,” 27east.com, January 22]. Nothing can be further from the truth, but creating fear is apparently better than the reality.

President Donald Trump wants to arrest and remove criminals wanted for rape, homicide and robbery and send them back to their countries of origin. The reality is, nothing at all will change in our school districts, and we will not have students nor their parents removed, unless they are members of MS-13, Tren de Aragua or the 18th Street gangs.

The reality of the Hispanic community is that they also don’t want gang members threatening or shaking down their communities. The insular community of the East End knows nothing about how these gangs create fear and extort money from hard-working Hispanics.

I can tell you, as a former law enforcement officer, that these gangs will threaten, assault, rape, mutilate and intimidate hard-working migrants to entrench a power hold of destruction that prevents them from attaining the American dream. These violent individuals, in an organized and destructive way, leave migrants paralyzed to protect their families. So, if you really care about these hard-working migrants, you will help them rid those who pose the very real threat to their families.

President Trump will provide the opportunity for hard-working migrants to prosper while at the same time removing those who have come here to prey on the most vulnerable individuals who struggle to make a living for themselves and their family.

The additional “Paw Print” cartoon was ironic, with its theme that Big Tech, Senate and Congress, along with the courts, were masked with fear, and journalism was open. The reality is, journalism failed our nation for the last four years by remaining silent that our president was no longer effectively performing his duties when the rest of the nation could clearly see it.

The damage has been done, trust has been broken, and soon we will all know the truth of the last four years. The question will be: Do journalists finally expose such ignorance, or do they try to cover their tracks by continuing spewing disinformation to protect their preferred party?

Thomas Jones

Sag Harbor