Immigration & MLK

Recent ICE events in Minnesota and elsewhere in the U.S. are similar to the 1960's Civil Rights Movement efforts of Martin Luther King. Instead of men wearing white sheets over their heads and representing the KKK, we have men in camoflauge, with guns, masks and tear gas representing ICE. But Dr. MLK only promoted non-violence, where some immigration protestors are aggressive, spilling hate and anger in large portions onto peaceful streets. That is the wrong approach. Protests must be peaceful. Immigration efforts need to be strategic, focused and precise - not ICE agents roaming the streets, looming in Wal-Mart parking lots, and randomly targeting demographics and ethnicity. The Democrats badly fumbled immigration. It's the Republicans issue. Illegal immigrants, especially with criminal records, need to be peacefully apprehended and removed. Republicans are using a discriminatory approach to immigration reform, causing death, fear, confusion, and possibly taking backward steps in U.S. Civil Rights. We need many, many more MLK's, and far, far fewer Millers, Trump's, Vance's, and Noem's.