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Will nation repeat
tragic policy of past?

Re: “Policy could be costly to the state” (Page A1, Nov. 30).

The CalMatters article pointing out how devastating mass deportations would be to our economy is valuable to a point. Most tragic would be the human toll with Donald Trump’s plan for deportations modeled after President Eisenhower’s 1953-54 program “Operation Wetback,” named with an ethnic slur and that Trump praises.

I am old enough to remember it. People died. Human rights were violated. Hispanics were rounded up in raids, put on buses and in trucks, hauled deep into Mexico without due process and dumped. An unknown number of Hispanic U.S. citizens were swept up in the raids and deported. News headlines and stories daily humiliated the victims.

As a 10-year-old boy then, I’ve never forgotten this disgrace. The prospect of repeating it 70 years later is horrifying.

Tom Debley
Walnut Creek

Cost-cutters must
pick the right targets

Re: “DOGE cost-cutting billionaires are dangerously out of touch” (Page A12, Dec. 1).

Having just read LZ Granderson’s article critiquing the new DOGE cost-cutting program, I have two points to make.

First, we don’t know what they are planning to do yet, but Granderson is already making the assumption that they don’t understand the issues of lower-income and poor people. If they begin with Citizens Against Government Waste proposals (long a source of egregious waste in the federal government), they will have plenty to focus on that is not impactful.

Second, he suggests that even as Donald Trump and company enjoy McDonald’s food, Granderson says, “for a lot of poor people, it’s what they can afford.” I maintain that healthy grocery food is a much better deal for health and your wallet. McDonald’s is a treat.

Denise Kalm
Walnut Creek

States are within
rights to oppose Trump

Re: “Democrats are the new threat to democracy” (Page A6, Nov. 26).

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