Re: “City Council considers whether to keep cams taking photos of license plates<\/a>,” April 7 news story<\/p>\n It’s a reminder of why I love Denver and Colorado. Denver City Council is debating keeping a license plate recognition program that has proven successful at identifying stolen cars driving past and, by extension, catching the “suspects” driving them.<\/p>\n Why the pause by the Council? Privacy concerns! Balancing the greater good with individual freedoms is government operating at its best.<\/p>\n One only has to observe our current national government grabbing people off the streets and, without “due process,” but for simply expediency, shipping them off to a hellhole prison in El Salvador.<\/p>\n It’s comforting to know someone still cares for the rule of law.<\/p>\n Harry Puncec, Lakewood<\/em><\/p>\n Re: “Federal government detains international student at Tufts,” March 27 news story<\/p>\n Watching the video of Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish student working on a Ph.D., is pretty sickening, especially since it is occurring in the United States. \u00a0First of all, we keep hearing the lie that the administration is only deporting violent criminals. Then we have masked people who claim they are with law enforcement, grab her and handcuff her, and apparently cart her off to Louisiana. She did have a visa allowing her to study in the U.S., which the president’s administration apparently revoked and shipped her to Louisiana. Unlike these agents, Hitler’s SS did not bother wearing masks.<\/p>\n One story is that she spoke up and was against the killing of thousands of innocent women and children in Palestinian territories. Target Hamas? Yes. Slaughtering innocents? We all should be against.<\/p>\n I guess this is a way that President Donald Trump wants to keep people from traveling to the U.S. and spending dollars here. But America, it is not. It is evil and corrupt, in this 83-year-old’s opinion.<\/p>\n Wayne Wathen, Centennial<\/em><\/p>\n Re: “Internal Revenue Service will send immigrant tax data to ICE enforcement,” April 9 news story<\/p>\n To Make America Great Again, the IRS will give the tax returns of immigrants who work and pay their taxes to Homeland Security so they can target and deport undocumented immigrants who work in America and pay their taxes. Why not? Makes about as much sense as the Trump tariffs scheme.<\/p>\n Jeffrey Stroh, Denver<\/em><\/p>\n I remember when former President Joe Biden boasted about the increase in employment each month. Nobody ever complained that many of those jobs were unneeded government jobs. Now everybody is complaining about the reduction in government jobs, especially the provisional workers who have been employed less than two years \u2013 the same two years Biden boasted about rising employment. The chickens have come home to roost.<\/p>\n Jim Lloyd,\u00a0Lakewood<\/em><\/p>\n Re: “NWSL stadium: Denver to kick in up to $70M<\/a>,” April 10 news story<\/p>\nA violation of American values<\/h4>\n
Work hard, pay taxes, get deported<\/h4>\n
Biden’s brag about job creation<\/h4>\n
Shouldn’t we taxpayers be team owners too?<\/h4>\n