Polls show
that most Americans are supportive of deporting undocumented murderers and rapists. However, a majority are against the current administration’s approach to deportation, which includes deporting undocumented immigrants who have lived here for years, raise their families here, work hard and attend our places of worship. These are friends and neighbors who are an important part of our communities. Unfortunately, this is the most targeted deportation group as demand to meet arbitrary deportation numbers increases. Our friends and neighbors are living in terror of ICE raids that leave their families broken without a wage earner and leave children without their parents. We are enacting laws and policies that make it difficult for these people to live normal lives. One example is how undocumented immigrant high school students are being treated.
First those without legal status were disqualified from receiving in-state tuition rates. Now, many fear even applying to college. These students were brought to the U.S. as babies. Many are from low-income families and have very few resources. They do have the American dream to work hard, go to college and become successful.
Many communities have rallied around a beloved immigrant who was detained by ICE. What we need is for my fellow Americans to demand change to these cruel policies before ICE detains our friends and neighbors. I especially call upon the religious communities to speak out. Their silence is deafening.
James A. Fegan
Longwood
Is it possible that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ social-media statement “Bottom feeders gonna bottom feed” was unfairly mistaken as an accusation against Sentinel reporter Jeffrey Schweers
(Scott Maxwell: “DeSantis orders Orlando Sentinel to stop investigating his scandal. That’s not happening,” June 11)
when it was possibly a position statement clarifying his administration’s form of government? Instead of criticism, the Sentinel should congratulate the governor for his self-awareness and forthright honesty.
James Weatherspoon
St. Cloud
Now that President Trump has deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles on his own, without waiting for a request from California’s governor or Los Angeles’ mayor, we know that he could have sent National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, without waiting for a request from Nancy Pelosi or the mayor of D.C.
Through his hypocrisy, Trump has revealed that insurrection is only acceptable when it serves his political ambitions.
David Frank DeLuca
Palm Bay
We keep hearing about how interest rates are too high and need to come down. Really? It’s easy to use the search engine of your choice to look at the history of the prime rate, going back 50 years, and see that it was usually higher than it is now, even during good economic times. And the lies on social media decrying our “high interest rates” only exacerbate the problem. You want to see high interest rates? Look at how the prime rate exceeded 20% back in 1980.
While low interest rates are good for buyers, they make saving money difficult. We should not have to feel like we’re playing a card game at a casino when trying to grow our savings. Markets have been wildly fluctuating in recent years from Russia’s war with Ukraine and our current leader’s tariff game. Billionaires are fine, but many average people have lost a large part of their savings.
When I was growing up and into the 1980s, you could put money into a regular savings account and earn 4-5% annual interest. At my bank, a regular savings account now earns as little as 0.01% annually. Better options often have time limits when the better rate expires. We need the historically normal interest rates that allowed investments like savings accounts and CDs to earn a decent rate so that people don’t have to keep worrying about their savings whenever a world leader decides to start chaos.
Bob Schmerling
Lake Mary
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