Re: May 1 editorial.
Thank you for your editorial referencing Immigration and Customs Enforcement’sarrest of Arturo Hernandez Garcia. That the arrest appeared to be in response to Jeanette Vizguerra’s stature as one of Timemagazine’s “100 Most Influential People” chilled those of us demonstrating at the ICE office last week. The act, which you appropriately called “a kind of gratuitous and hateful overreach that defies understanding,” in fact appears to be an act of terrorism against the undocumented population.
For those hardliners who say that the arrest of Hernandez Garcia makes perfect sense in light of his overstayed visa, I would like to mention that Canadians and Europeans overstay visas in far higher numbers than Mexicans. tell us that Canadians had slightly over 93,000 overstays at the end of fiscal year 2015.Europeans had 123,000 overstays. What about Mexico? Just over 42,000 overstays. That’s less than half of Canada’s —and yet there were no white people in detention during the two years I volunteered at the immigration detentionfacility in Aurora.
Laura Dravenstott,Centennial
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