Readers respond with 10 takes on immigration crackdown in Minneapolis
Wisconsin State Journal readers have sent in many letters to the editor about the immigration operation in Minnesota. You can join the conversations by sending 200 words or less to wsjopinion@madison.com. Please include your address and phone number for verification.
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President Donald Trump says the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deployed to Minnesota are protecting us all from violent gangs of murderers, rapists and “the worst of the worst” undocumented immigrants. But it is ICE we have to fear.
As a human, U.S. citizen and person of faith, I am alarmed by the unchecked power exercised by Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the Trump administration. No federal agency should operate beyond constitutional limits or without meaningful oversight. Every level of American government should protect the rights of all residents and citizens.
I took issue with Thursday's letter to the editor "If police don't need masks, ICE shouldn’t." Members of both SWAT teams and some drug enforcement units often wear masks to protect their identities.
In this country prior to 2025, if you saw armed masked people, you assumed they were terrorists or criminals planning crimes. These days, armed masked people work for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Froma Harrop's column in Friday’s Wisconsin State Journal, "What if nobody came to the war on Minneapolis?," was a tone-deaf critique of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement mission in Minneapolis.
The Dec. 9 letter to the editor "'Illegal alien' is a term Americans should retire" preferred the word “undocumented” rather than “illegal” when referring to immigrants who have entered our country without official entry approval.
If, as a nation, we are lucky enough to see U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents leave Minnesota and redefine their mission and tactics nationwide, I think it would be appropriate to nominate the people of Minneapolis and St. Paul for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
Nurses across this country are grieving, outraged and disgusted by the killing of our colleague, Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis last weekend. Pretti was a nurse, not simply by profession, but by identity. Nursing is not something we choose to do -- it is who we are.
Out of the news loop lately? The following will get you up to speed:
A U.S. immigration officer fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis last week. Our president said that she was "screaming" and "obviously, a professional agitator." She was engaged in "domestic terrorism," is how another Trump administration official put it.
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