Letter
Robert Reich keeps me sane
About a year ago, I ran into a friend who asked how I was. “Donald Trump is driving me insane” I replied. “You should read Robert Reich,” she said. And ever since then I have read Reich’s daily blogs on Substack about the sheer awfulness of the Trump Administration.
This article about the appalling Kristi Noem and her Department of Homeland Security was particularly therapeutic because the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of ICE still make me weep. It’s not just their deaths but the unconstitutional manner in which they act. As Reich writes: " Pulling people out of their homes in the middle of the night without search warrants. Arresting people without giving them due process of law to defend themselves. Putting innocent people into detention camps. Not giving them adequate food or medical care. Not letting their families know where they are. Sending them out of the country to brutal prisons in other lands. Even jailing children…"
America has always had porous borders to its south. Literally millions have walked or swum across the Rio Grande to get there. Some kind of border control was justified but not this! It is an outrage.
— Jenny Goldie from Cooma NSW