Letters: ICE focuses on honor students instead of criminals

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ICE keeps focus off

hardened criminals

A young undocumented honor student walks into an immigration hearing with her mother — she walks out deported to Guatemala , wearing only the clothes on her back. She doesn’t even speak Spanish, not a trace of an accent. What was achieved here? Who was made safer? Who benefited?

These are not criminals. They pay taxes. They contribute. Now their jobs are empty, waiting for Americans who will never step forward to take them. The “benefits” of deportation are nothing but political lies — fabricated talking points for cheap applause lines.

The fallback excuse is always: They broke the law. But that phrase is weaponized, designed to lump hardworking families toge