The wrong take on ICE in the courts

The Connecticut Post’s, Nov. 10 ICE editorial could not be further off the mark, advocating the abdication of responsibility by Connecticut court personnel.

Hearst papers advocating the barring of federal law enforcement agents from being assisted in carrying out their law enforcement duties within the state courts’ system is outrageous.

For the state legislature to expand the Trust Act, effective Oct. 1, further protecting illegal aliens from capture by federal ICE law enforcement agents with the orderly assistance of state courts’ staff is equally onerous.

Aliens attempting to gain benefits of U.S. residency, bypassing immigration law and procedures, are not only attempting to steal into our country but to shamefully gather “the low hanging fruit” of America’s largess without vowing to commit themselves to our laws and customs. In essence, they have committed grand theft of American idealism and freedoms with impunity. They are, plainly speaking, law breakers.

The editorials use of “entrapment” is false. It is the alien who has put himself in the situation, not the court, not the citizens. The editorial saying “those without documentation could be driven to avoid the system” is ludicrous. Aliens act outside the system on a daily basis with the complicit aid of agitators, newspapers, legislators, employers and political leftists.

The whole concept of “safe” citystates is a corruption of American jurisprudence, equal process and “no one is above the law.”

Paul G. Littlefield

Shelton