To the Editor:
Re “Schools Brace for ICE Agents at Their Doors” (entrance web page, Jan. 8):
Day-after-day, academics should create lesson plans, grade assignments, and construct belief and neighborhood with their college students, amongst quite a few different duties that include being an educator.
The persistent refusal by legislatures nationwide to handle the gun violence epidemic has meant that academics should additionally fear about and plan for his or her college students’ security within the classroom.
Now, we’re including to their plates a fear that ICE brokers will march into faculties and take away their college students in the course of the day.
The nation already faces an alarming instructor scarcity. Anticipating academics to face down federal brokers is each unrealistic and, sadly, more likely to drive extra educators from the sector.
I applaud New York Metropolis public faculties’ efforts to organize for this terrifying risk, however it shouldn’t be needed within the first place.
As America’s lecture rooms proceed to be transformed into political battlegrounds, we should surprise: How are we serving to our kids? How do fights over banned books, essential theories, gun rights and immigration assist college students be taught and develop?
Mother and father, educators and politicians should suppose much less about how these points have an effect on their agendas and extra about how they have an effect on the following era. Our kids deserve higher.
Carson Whitesell
Cambridge, Mass.
The author is a former highschool instructor.
To the Editor:
It’s dangerous sufficient that our kids and grandchildren need to surprise if a gunman will achieve entry to their college buildings and begin capturing. Now will they see ICE brokers enter their lecture rooms to take away their classmates?
They could start to concern: “Will they return and take me away? The place will they take me? Will I ever see my household once more?”
Is that this actually the America MAGA adherents need?
Kathleen Chant
Albany, N.Y.
The author is a retired educator.
Immigrants Who Worry In search of Well being Care
To the Editor:
“Doctors Should Prepare for Mass Deportations,” by Danielle Ofri (Opinion visitor essay, Jan. 20), compassionately conveys the troubling plight of largely well-meaning and respectful undocumented immigrants. They’re right here within the U.S. to expertise higher lives for themselves and their family members.
The opposite facet of the coin is that they illegally crossed our borders. The rationale the Tom Homans and Donald Trumps of the world are empowered is that they’re unafraid to articulate what many peculiar residents suppose.
We’d like many immigrants for a large number of causes. However we envision an orderly and welcoming course of. When there’s a mass invasion (our notion) of uninvited folks simply overwhelming our borders, understanding goes out the window.
For that motive, Mr. Trump and firm might be rounding up immigrants right here illegally and booting them out. They will even be working to vary our asylum guidelines and immigration legal guidelines to by no means once more enable the unlawful immigration catastrophe that occurred through the Biden administration. It’s in all probability the only largest motive that many individuals who voted for President Biden in 2020 switched their vote to Mr. Trump in 2024.
All unlawful entrants in our nation absolutely understood the dangers once they got here right here uninvited. They shouldn’t be stunned that they’re being forcefully advised to depart.
H. Manuel Martinez
New York
To the Editor:
After all we medical doctors have an obligation to the well being of our sufferers above all else. If our affected person broke the legislation and got here right here illegally, or broke the legislation and beat somebody up, we’ll merely care for the affected person.
If the authorities make sufferers extra petrified of in search of care, similar to by requiring disclosure of immigration standing, so be it, and we medical doctors don’t have any obligation to assist or hinder these authorities. It’s actually that easy.
I’ve sympathy for undocumented immigrants and want the federal government would reform the legal guidelines in order that much more immigrants can come right here legally. However Dr. Danielle Ofri ought not faux that the standing of undocumented immigrants is a particular ethical case that calls for that medical doctors take a stand.
Let the authorities do their job, and allow us to medical doctors do ours.
Ari Weitzner
New York
Scary Navy Shortcomings
To the Editor:
Re “Hegseth Is the Secretary of Defense We Deserve,” by David Brooks (column, Jan. 17):
That is really a daunting, however eye-opening, column. Not a lot as a result of our leaders in Washington are failing to ask the correct questions of Pete Hegseth, however relatively as a result of they don’t seem to be specializing in the 5 doomsday bullet factors that lead off the column. Why have they not taken the mandatory steps to guard our nation from these drastic army shortcomings Mr. Brooks describes?
Copies of this column ought to be distributed to each member of Congress and to everybody within the Pentagon as shortly as doable. Let’s not wait for an additional Pearl Harbor.
Ronald Kadin
Delray Seashore, Fla.
Girls’s Gradual Progress
To the Editor:
Re “Hung Up On and Told to Wear Lipstick” (Actual Property, Jan. 12):
The completed actual property builders within the article show girls’s sluggish however positive progress in building.
I skilled this myself over a number of many years. Early on, a future boss requested, “What for those who get married, have youngsters and stop?” My response — “You possibly can’t be critical” — made him neglect the query and provide me the job.
Later, after I was managing lodge renovations, somebody created a place between me and my boss and crammed it with a person. I documented what I did (so much) versus the brand new man (not a lot). That place quickly vanished.
Then, earlier than a summer time job, my future boss invited me to a night gathering of the summer time interns. It turned out to be only one intern — me — alone in his house. Utilizing one other model of “You possibly can’t be critical,” I extricated myself from that state of affairs. And proceeded to have a productive, if awkward, summer time.
Ultimately, my work grew to become managing design and building for homeowners. This included figuring out who will get paid, how a lot and when. With that, nobody observed whether or not I had lipstick or not — ever once more.
Greatest needs to all girls in building in all assignments in any respect ranges, so sooner or later this may all be historical past.
Amy E. Cohn
White Plains, N.Y.
Betting on Bitcoin
To the Editor:
Re “A Federal Bitcoin Stockpile? Trump Likes the Idea” (Enterprise, Jan. 17):
I learn with nice curiosity that Donald Trump is contemplating directing the Treasury Division to purchase a boatload of Bitcoin to create some kind of strategic reserve for the nation. However why cease there?
I urge Mr. Trump to think about additionally having the Treasury stockpile state lottery tickets, Kentucky Derby bets and, whereas they’re at it, Monopoly cash. As a Philadelphian, I may also ask him to think about betting a piece of Treasury payments on the Eagles to win the Tremendous Bowl, however, on second thought, that would truly be a great funding.
Richie Feder
Philadelphia
