Re: \u201cTrump’s presidency was never about deporting illegal immigrants,\u201d June 1 editorial<\/p>\n
We thought your editorial was excellent — as far as it went. Yanking the rug out from under thousands of foreigners who often risked life and limb to find a safe haven in America is an unconscionable act of heartless, anti-humanitarian gall on the part of Donald Trump and his minions.<\/p>\n
Less attention has been paid to the situation of more than 60 Afghan families living here in Colorado on Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Many of these are persons who aided American troops during the decade-long war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
It was bad enough when the U.S. gave up the 20-year fight against the Taliban and pulled out of Afghanistan in 2021. Now,\u00a0the Trump administration<\/a> is apparently ready to punish the people who were our allies.<\/p>\n While I was a professor of psychology at Metropolitan State University of Denver, I produced several films for classroom use. One of them was “Being Muslim in America–An Afghan-American Family Story,” and featured a family who escaped Afghanistan when it was occupied by Russia in the 1980s.<\/p>\n This couple and their children have made a successful life for themselves in Thornton and have created a support program called Muslim Youth for Positive Impact that has enabled many Afghans to integrate into our community and serve as contributing members of society. In May, some of these families received notice that their TPS would be revoked in July. This is an outrage that must not be allowed to stand.<\/p>\n If we similarly allow Trump to remove these Afghan families from Colorado and send them back to Afghanistan, where they will surely be killed or tortured by the Taliban, we have disgraced ourselves. What nation will ever trust the U.S. again?<\/p>\n We plead with Attorney General Phil Weiser to do something to halt this terrible deed.<\/p>\n Mary Ann Watson, Denver\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Much has been written in The Denver Post and elsewhere about the Trump administration and ICE’s arrests of persons in this country illegally. Some have described it as “federal overreach” and “federal attacks on our community.” ICE officials have been compared to “Nazis.” Recently, the governor signed into law Senate Bill 276<\/a> (Protect Civil Rights Immigration Status) and one organization said the law “makes our communities safer.”<\/p>\n It is alleged that the individual arrested in Boulder is in the country with an expired visa and a pending asylum application. Is our community safer because ICE did not arrest that individual before he could attack a peaceful protest? Isn’t it time to tone down the rhetoric and have a reasonable discussion? Protecting every person in the country illegally does not make the community safer.<\/p>\n Ken Fody, Helena, Mont.<\/em><\/p>\nMideast terror shouldn’t have reached American soil<\/h4>\n