In paragraph 5, you noted that Mr. Garcia’s change of address happened “after learning [Jennifer Vasquez Sura] was pregnant.” (Could a possible translation be, “Let’s set the stage and establish the real deal about the character of these ‘illegal aliens’ we have to deal with in this country. She was – tsk, tsk – pregnant, after all!”)

Paragraph 7 contained 2 separate accusations, which did not appear to be actual convictions:
1) Homeland Security suspected human trafficking.” This was not a conviction. (Couldn’t the 8 people in the car have been his immediate family of 5 and perhaps 3 friends or relatives taking a trip on a family vacation?)
2) And the MS-13 gang affiliation? This was not fact. He was not convicted. (The police officer who “identified” him as an MS-13 member was later suspended for sex crimes. Not a very credible source.)
Why include these accusations? Are some of your own prejudices oozing out, Mr. Mitchell?

No one is presenting Garcia as a model human being. He’s also not the only one in this situation. His is simply the face that we see right now.

I find these kinds of slanted opinion pieces from a local attorney disconcerting, at best, and distressing, to say the least. I am local also – born and raised – with a history of racism in my family line that hails back to the earliest days of this country, replete with slaveholding, slave trading, deep Confederate sympathies and KKK activities. The history of my ancestors is horrifying. I know that your family history runs deep in these parts also, Mr. Mitchell, so there may be similarities in our stories. I’m distressed when I see that there is not as much distance as I’d like to see between yesteryear and today when I read things like I’ve read today in this letter.

Due process. This is the point. If the law is to be discarded at the whim of the current executive branch of our government, that must be addressed. People must stand and fight and write and do whatever we can to do our parts, as Sen. Van Hollen has modeled.

Mr. Mitchell, what was your real agenda that prompted you to write this letter? Do you, along with members of the current administration, actually only want due process and American law to apply to its citizens, and not to all human beings in the country? That’s not the law. But is this what you’re really saying? I don’t know from reading your letter.

I think it is time for you consider retiring before a Republican beats your butt.

I think you have no consideration or appreciation of the constitution or the laws of our country.

If you should happen to be arrested accidentally and imprisoned somewhere, let’s say Idaho, and a US Senator from your state offered to fly to Idaho to see how you were faring and to try to get you released from your illegal imprisonment, you would be okay with that only if the Senator would also agree to meet with the families of every person in your state who had been murdered. Do I have that right? It wouldn’t matter, per the Constitution, whether you were a citizen or alien. It would matter that the federal government were paying large sums of money to keep you in Idaho. Your right to due process no longer applied to you. The rule of law no longer applied to you. The Constitution no longer applied to you. Is that your view? If so I can only assume that you are a MAGA Republican and actually believe what you have written. Thanks for reading.