{"id":24754,"date":"2025-06-29T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/24754\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T14:59:08","slug":"ices-presence-isnt-making-this-reader-feel-any-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/24754\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE\u2019s presence isn\u2019t making this reader feel any safer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>To the editor<\/b>: Am I safer because street vendors are being taken off the street? Or landscapers? Or restaurant workers? Or car wash workers? Am I safer when armed men in masks roam Los Angeles with impunity; who feel they have the right to use excessive force against a woman who ended up in their path, and who are seemingly threatened by bystanders filming their cruelty? How many more cases must the Los Angeles Times document (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-06-27\/are-you-gonna-let-him-die-agents-pile-on-protester-who-convulses-and-struggles-to-breathe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c\u2018You gonna let him die?\u2019 Agents pile on protester, who convulses and struggles to breathe,\u201d<\/a> June 27)? Please see every Times issue this week for similar stories.<\/p>\n<p>How long before these thugs in face masks cause grievous harm to innocent bystanders with their mass arrest tactics? Immigration and Customs Enforcement has operated in Los Angeles for decades without this brand of violence. And that\u2019s the point \u2014 it is a brand. A Donald Trump\/Stephen Miller brand designed to emphasize cruelty for our consumption. I\u2019m not safer, but I am ashamed that this is happening in our city, our state and our country.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Burgess, Camarillo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Am I safer because street vendors are being taken off the street? Or landscapers? Or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[12062,17829,1582,276,22224,22227,7129,22225,5410,409,2961,224,2444,5337,7136,22226,22222,22223,625],"class_list":{"0":"post-24754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-brand","9":"tag-bystander","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-cruelty","13":"tag-customs-enforcement","14":"tag-editor","15":"tag-grievous-harm","16":"tag-ice","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-times","21":"tag-losangeles","22":"tag-mask","23":"tag-mass-arrest-tactic","24":"tag-presence","25":"tag-reader","26":"tag-street"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114767250412060388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}