To the editor: I have been following the recent disturbances in Los Angeles and I thought that Mark Z. Barabak's column was the best analysis of President Trump President Trump of the protests against ice raids (“Putting the bully on the thug pulpit, Trump intensifies in Los Angeles instead of looking for calm,” June 9).
Barabak wrote so correctly that Trump was “launching an assault on the Constitution and the limits of presidential power.” In terms of the two subjects of the “bully pulpit” and the presidential powers, I am bewildered why the media experts have not yet indicated an omission in the hard immigrant anti-ilegal agenda of Trump. If he is such a hard line against undocumented migrants who violate the laws to come here, why has he not used his pulpit and presidential power to honor all possible immigrants in Mexico and the Central American countries that have passed through the right channels obeying immigration laws and have been in waiting lists for several years to reach the United States?
With the coup of a pen, it could grant them automatic green cards and a quick way to citizens to obey our immigration laws, which would in effect benefit their own public posture not compromised against undocumented immigrants. The conclusion is that Trump is ignoring a policy that would really highlight the position of his administration by complying with legal immigration.
Salvador Montoya Ortega, Bakersfield
