{"id":593,"date":"2025-10-08T11:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/attorneycalendar.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:11:46","slug":"release-immigration-activist-jeanette-vizguerra-from-ice-detention-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/attorneycalendar.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/release-immigration-activist-jeanette-vizguerra-from-ice-detention-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Release immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra from ICE detention (Letters)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Release Vizguerra<\/h4>\n

Re: \u201cDetained activist says that she feels \u2018vulnerable\u2019 six months after arrest<\/a>,\u201d Sept. 30 news story<\/p>\n

Jeanette Vizguerra, an activist detained by ICE for 6 months, should be released immediately. She is a working mother who paid taxes supporting the government at the time of her detention. Being held, she is costing the government and taxpayers money.<\/p>\n

D.T. Dodson, Denver<\/em><\/p>\n

Shutdowns demonstrate wrong priorities<\/h4>\n

So, let me understand: We are continuing to pay members of Congress, but not air traffic controllers and active-duty military members? Our priorities are turned upside down. Can anyone govern in America?<\/p>\n

Scott Bridgford, Highlands Ranch<\/em><\/p>\n

The political shutdown of the federal government is nothing new, but no less of a disgrace. It goes beyond just hurting the economy. Shutting down the government should be illegal. The first expenses cut should be with Congress, the president, and high-level political appointees. They are probably not concerned about mortgage payments or health insurance.<\/p>\n

Using government as a political whipping post is a libertarian ideal for some, but to disregard the impact on people\u2019s lives is unconscionable. Republicans can stop pretending to be standing up for the interests of common people. They are doing what they do best, and that is advocating for trickle-down economics under a false flag of patriotism.<\/p>\n

The reasoning that \u201cwaste, fraud and abuse\u201d only occurs in government is not factual, \u00a0patriotic or justified. There is no excuse to subordinate public safety and the general welfare to a political ideology.\u00a0The American standard of living for the middle class defines us, but\u00a0the wealth gap between the rich and poor could destroy us, and democracy is at\u00a0the crossroads.<\/p>\n

I certainly understand why most Democrats opposed the budget, but too many of them, past and present, also supported Taft-Hartley laws to appease private enterprise with legislation like the Railway Labor Act and right-to-work laws. They broke rank to protect power and profit.\u00a0They have us fighting a culture war to stop us from fighting a class war.\u00a0Let\u2019s hope the next president signs legislation to outlaw government shutdowns and pass the pro-act.<\/p>\n

Timothy D. Allport, Arvada<\/em><\/p>\n

Denying climate change, history doesn\u2019t make it so<\/h4>\n

Re: \u201cEPA may stop collecting data from polluters,\u201d Sept. 13 news story<\/p>\n

Mother Nature doesn\u2019t care who won the last election. Climate change denials stop neither flood nor fire. Hurricanes fueled by heated seas will crash ashore despite any executive order. Cutting FEMA funding just makes suffering worse.<\/p>\n

Killing clean energy credits does not stop progress; it just gives it to the Chinese.<\/p>\n

Halting the agriculture department from tracking hunger feeds no one.<\/p>\n

Disparaging vaccines does harm now. Canceling cancer research kills later.<\/p>\n

Presidential pronouncements can\u2019t change history. Removing slavery\u2019s sins from museums or history books unbeats no slave nor unlynches one runaway. A broken treaty is not honored by its denial.<\/p>\n