Detention centers threaten Colorado’s communities and environment
Plans to reopen immigrant detention centers in Hudson and Walsenburg raise urgent questions that have gone unanswered. ICE is a federal agency, yet there has been no mention of compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Federal funding should require a full environmental review.
These facilities have been shuttered for years. Reopening them would bring heavy traffic, strain rural roads, and threaten air and water quality. The GEO Group, which would likely run them, was cited in 2014 for water pollution in Hudson.
Beyond environmental risks, there is also the human cost: immigrants confined in facilities run by GEO or CoreCivic, companies repeatedly cited for inhumane treatment, and small communities left to absorb the impacts.
Coloradans deserve transparency. Our elected officials should demand that ICE prove full NEPA compliance — or reject these projects outright.
Jenifer Montes, Greeley
The killing of American democracy
Just when I thought Donald Trump could not do anything more destructive of American democracy, he did. He resorted to direct violence by blowing up a boat in the Caribbean Sea that he claims was a drug-running boat.
Normally, our U.S. Coast Guard would intercept such a boat, board it, verify drugs on board, arrest the crew, confiscate the drugs, and possibly destroy the boat. That would be the legal, constitutional procedure. The United States of America has been admired and respected internationally for centuries for protecting human rights as a nation.
DJT is moving toward being a dictator as rapidly as he can. Our American constitutional democracy is based on laws, rules and procedures. The most defining aspect of our government system is not any specific action or policy, but its procedures and structure. Our three equal branches of government were designed to prevent any person or group from dominating and ruling like a monarch.
As a former Army captain and combat helicopter pilot, I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC. I did not swear loyalty to a president. All military officers, elected officials and federal civil servants take the same oath. Our current president demands loyalty and aggressively attacks anyone he dislikes or thinks is insufficiently loyal. That’s a dictator.
Presidential action that is unconstitutional or illegal will destroy America. Dictators make their own rules and ignore those already established. They eliminate opposition through intimidation, bullying, force, and, when they think necessary, violence. That is the opposite of civilized, controlled, regulated debate and decision making. Our nearly 250-year-old system of government is methodical and can be frustratingly slow, but it is noble, righteous, principled, and worthy of defending. Don’t let Trump destroy it.
Dr. Bob Stewart, Greeley
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