Ifully empathize with the ambulatory challenges mentioned by the writer who had to navigate around the protest encampment outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in South Waterfront, (“ Readers respond: ICE protest makes seniors uncomfortable, ” Sept. 23). I hope he is as uncomfortable with the many challenges our country is facing under the authoritarian policies and practices being carried out by the administration of President Donald Trump.

I, too, am a senior citizen. I rode the Willamette Shore Trolley to South Portland just last weekend. We had to back up some distance from the final stop across from the ICE facility due to lingering tear gas. I, too, had to navigate around the protestors’ sidewalk encampment. But rather than view this as a personally uncomfo

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