What is really going on

In his July 11 letter, “On the loss of America’s democracy,” Frank Splitt wrote:

“Finally, consider the passage of Trump’s “Big, beautiful Bill” that will enable the Department of Homeland Security to hire a literal army of ICE agents as well as establish detention camps for immigrants and other undesirables reminiscent of Germany’s Brown Shirts and concentration camps as well as Soviet gulags.”

Sad to say, millions of Americans aren’t paying attention to today’s political chaos so they are unaware of the loss of their democracy while many others do not seem to care and still others seem to be all right living under an evolving autocratic dictatorship.

Some Americans are led to believe everything is fine in opinion pieces by right-wing journalists. For example, we only need to look at the July 13 Opinion page to see Veroniqe de Rugy’s “Big Beautiful Bill delivers bipartisan win for HSAs” and Debra J. Saunder’s op-ed, “The sad truth behind ICE Masks.”

With regard to Saunder’s piece, readers should be aware of The Associated Press report on page 2 of the same issue, “Trump says he wants to deport the ‘worst of the worst.’ Gov’t data tells another story.” Briefly, the story is that the vast majority of deportees are not criminals.

M. Mangan

Mount Prospect