Letters: Opposition to ICE has facts all wrong - NOLA.com
A letter writer responds to a previous December letter opposing ICE, arguing that most of its claims were factually incorrect. The author contends that the Supreme Court's ruling in *Noem v. Vasquez* was consistent with earlier precedents allowing race as one factor in reasonable suspicion stops, and that it was ICE — not immigrants — being demonized. The letter also alleges that anti-ICE protesters engaged in violent acts, including shootings and attacks on law enforcement, and argues that illegal immigrants' violation of U.S. laws, including working illegally and paying criminal smuggling networks, makes them complicit in further crimes.
In a December letter about citizens voicing opposition to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the author makes statements most of which are false. In U.S. v. Mendenhall (1980) and U.S. v. Sokolow (1989), more than 35 years prior to the Supreme Court ruling in Noem v. Vasquez, both ruled race can be one component of a profile that police utilize to stop someone with reasonable suspicion. Thus, in Noem v. Vasquez, this Supreme Court did not turn the clock back to the pre-civil rights era but ruled consistently with the earlier rulings.
Demonizing immigrants, a lie? It is ICE that is demonized, being called Nazis, Gestapo, criminals, murders, rapists and traitors.
Since Jan. 1, illegal immigrants have killed 12 Americans in trucking accidents and committed another two homicides and 10 reported rapes. Anti-ICE rioters shot three people in Dallas and killed one. They also shot two National Guard members and killed one.
Anti-ICE rioters do not engage in protected First Amendment protests. None had parade permits. There were over 80 incidents of ramming ICE automobiles, attacking ICE personnel with rocks, BB guns, fireworks, Molotov cocktails or damaging government property, and 140 prosecuted for resisting arrest. Alex Pretti had the right to bring a gun while protesting, but he violated the law by not notifying law enforcement when encountered.
ICE does not attack any families in America, but it is a crime for illegal immigrants to work in this country. Their deliberate defiance of U.S. laws invariably is what leads to break of their communities. Those who work steal Social Security numbers, lie on the I-9 form, conspire with narco-traffickers, paying them thousands of dollars (to assist them in human smuggling, all felonies. The narco-traffickers use the $13 billion a year that the illegal immigrants pay them to commit acts of terrorism, murder, rape and drug trafficking, rendering the illegal immigrants in the U.S. complicit in those crimes.
JOSEPH MOLYNEUX
Metairie
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