Re: “ICE raids hit apartment buildings in metro area<\/a>,” Feb. 6 news story<\/p>\n The promised immigration raids finally came about on Wednesday, Feb 5. The excellent photos from The Denver Post showed an armed task force at the Cedar Run Apartments and reporting cited lots of banging on doors seeking undocumented immigrants. But residents mostly stayed inside, insisting on their right to see a valid warrant.<\/p>\n The Denver Post story included a link to an Enforcement and Removal Operations official giving a propaganda speech about why the lack of cooperation from local police and jails made such actions necessary. A Denver Post editorial<\/a> sniffed at this bait but, I\u2019m happy to say, refuted the argument. The Post saw through the disconnect that raids are necessary because the pipeline from the jail system is plugged.<\/p>\n We need to remember the abuses of racial profiling that led our state and city officials to change policies over several years and remove local law enforcement from doing ICE\u2019s work for them. What our public servants discovered was that removing the fear of interacting with the police makes the whole community safer.<\/p>\n We must not let these hyped-up enforcement efforts instill baseless fear in our community. Statistics have consistently shown that the immigrants among us are generally more law-abiding than our own citizens.<\/p>\n Let the police do their proper investigative and enforcement work to halt crime and apprehend criminals. Immigration status does not need to be a consideration in proper policing.<\/p>\n David J Poundstone, Denver<\/em><\/p>\n Re: “First military flight departs to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay,” Feb. 5 news story<\/p>\n Guantanamo Bay reactivated to imprison up to 30,000 asylum seekers? Armed federal agents going door-to-door at 6 am. in Hispanic neighborhoods demanding to see papers? What are we doing? What is this nightmare? This is NOT what America should be. Shame on us! Please, government leaders, stop this cruelty!<\/p>\n