Sick anti-ICE ‘protest’: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Anti-ICE protesters, joined by Don Lemon, interrupting a church service in Minneapolis.
Storming a church during worship doesn’t advance any coverage purpose — it destroys credibility (“For heaven sake,” Jan. 19).
Today’s protests too typically prioritize visibility over consequence. When activists disrupt worship, block enforcement, or behave like a mob, the public stops debating coverage and begins questioning order. That shift doesn’t help reform — it hurts the very causes being claimed. Real change requires principled motion, not spectacle.
Tomas Santiago
Chicago, Ill.
Everyone that intimidated the worshippers on the St. Paul church needs to be in jail. Attorney General Pam Bondi, throw the ebook at them and make it public.
Mike Santavicca
Yonkers
How low can protesters go in America as of late? What will the subsequent group do to embarrass and diminish life in America?
Why do rioters, lawbreakers, sandwich throwers and flag burners get to be thought-about “peaceful” protestors? Why is law enforcement as of late so afraid to apprehend and incarcerate these thugs?
Jack Ridolph
The Villages, Fla.
We have simply come by way of maybe one of probably the most emblematic weekends of the new radicalized, Trump-deranged, onerous left.
We had a mob bursting into a church, terrorizing parishioners, together with a youngster seen cowering in his mother and father arms. Don Lemon was half of the mob in individual, the remainder of the left-wing media in spirit. The anti-ICE mob believed a pastor on the church to be an ICE supervisor.
In an outright case of mistaken identification, three younger tech staff have been accosted for being white males in Minneapolis with out factory-printed anti-ICE indicators of their possession per the mob constitution. Talk about “Where are your papers?”
Nick McNulty
Windham, NH
The storming of a church in St. Paul by a fanatical band of crazies is additional proof that Minnesota is contaminated with not solely those that would ravage a metropolis in protection of assorted thieves stealing from public money, but additionally these thumbing their noses on the Constitution.
This disrespectful horde needs to be punished for his or her intrusion at a non secular operate.
Anthony Bruno
Smithtown
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The Issue: The ongoing strike by 15,000 New York City nurses in opposition to a number of non-public hospitals.
Anti-ICE protesters marching in downtown Minneapolis on Jan. 20, 2026. Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP by way of Getty Images
The nurses’ strike appears to have a minimum of not directly led to affected person deaths due to the scarcity of skilled nurses; that is exactly why it was unethical of them to strike (“Nurses & hospital talks set to resume,” Jan. 22).
My doctor colleagues and I’ve lots of issues we’re sad with, however we’d by no means strike. Who would correctly take care of our sufferers? The nurses have unreasonable calls for that might bankrupt the hospitals.
Striking and letting sufferers die unnecessarily is shameful, not one thing that needs to be drawing the help of political leaders.
Jessica Jacob
Great Neck
Fifteen thousand nurses are on strike for us. Their calls for are for safer hospitals, more nurses and higher health care. If Montefiore, Mt. Sinai, and Presbyterian met their calls for, all New Yorkers would benefit.
If the hospital directors knew how a lot we care concerning the well-being of these nurses, I feel they might return to the bargaining desk and negotiate in good religion.
We can show our help similar to we did during the pandemic. Every evening, everybody ought to open their home windows or doorways and bang loudly on pots and pans. We need to let these courageous health-care staff know we’re on their aspect.
Cary Goodman
Manhattan
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