To the Editor:
Re “Trump Wavers on Due Process Rights Under the Constitution” (information article, Could 5):
On Jan. 20, 2025, Donald Trump swore an oath to “protect, defend and defend the Structure of the USA. So assist me God.”
On Could 2, 2025, when requested whether or not he wanted to “uphold the Structure of the USA,” the president answered, “I don’t know,” and referred to his “sensible attorneys.”
If the president wants a lawyer to know that the oath he took requires him to uphold the Structure, God assist us all.
Jonathan Maskit
Granville, Ohio
The author teaches political philosophy at Denison College.
To the Editor:
What’s unfolding earlier than us just isn’t exhausting to acknowledge. These are the ways of authoritarian regimes: erasing due course of, weaponizing immigration enforcement and outsourcing cruelty to overseas strongmen.
That the Trump administration is proudly funding the detention of innocents in El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Middle, generally known as CECOT — a spot that meets each definition of a focus camp — is a grotesque betrayal of American values and human decency.
Worse nonetheless is the silence. Too many in our authorities and within the public appear extra disturbed by fluctuations within the inventory market than by the collapse of the rule of regulation or the torture of fellow human beings. Are we so numbed by spectacle and partisanship that we can’t see the peril proper in entrance of us?
This isn’t nearly migrants. It’s about all of us. The rights and protections we take without any consideration imply nothing if they are often so simply ignored. At the moment, it’s Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. Tomorrow, it might be any individuals who discover themselves inconvenient to energy.
If we’re to protect any semblance of a democratic society, we should name this what it’s: lawlessness, cruelty and a menace to the American Republic. We should act — via protest, the courts and above all, the poll field — earlier than it’s too late.
Robert Stewart
Chantilly, Va.
Immigration Questions
To the Editor:
Re “Trump Is Going Too Far in Amassing His Power, Most Voters in Poll Say” (entrance web page, April 26):
Whereas the outcomes of the New York Occasions/Siena School ballot counsel that help for President Trump’s immigration insurance policies is waning considerably, the article suggests that almost all People nonetheless help deportation.
Maybe the polls must be asking a extra nuanced set of questions that will power respondents to handle the fact of undocumented staff and the implications of mass deportation.
Listed here are some ideas:
1. If undocumented immigrants are deported, are you personally prepared to:
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Do their job milking cows and shoveling manure on a dairy farm?
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Journey from farm to farm selecting fruit all 12 months?
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Course of rooster in a substandard meatpacking plant?
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Deal with poisonous waste at a catastrophe web site?
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Use a leaf blower all day in 100-degree temperatures?
2. If the reply to any of those questions is not any, who do you suppose ought to try this work?
3. What ought to the federal government do to or for individuals who do these jobs to help your personal way of life, well being and well-being?
Leslie Turpin
Westminster West, Vt.
Compassion for Seniors
To the Editor:
Re “Overhaul Dismantles the Agency Running Meals on Wheels” (information article, April 25):
I’m a 74-year-old lady who delivers for Meals on Wheels to senior residents in Orange County, Calif. Two of the folks on my route of 9 are turning 100 this 12 months. One is a fiercely unbiased Asian lady, and the opposite a British lady who at all times calls “Are available in, love!” once I ring the bell. They stay alone. They’ll now not store for groceries or stand to cook dinner. However they take pleasure in being unbiased and admire the meals I carry.
President Trump, please don’t make them depart their houses. It might be merciless. Have some compassion in your elders.
Rebecca Allen
Laguna Hills, Calif.
