Letter to the editor: Trump’s tactics are Stalinesque

To the editor:

ICE, part of Homeland Security, has become the not-so-secret police for the president. Not just for immigrants anymore, but for all of us. The opinion piece on this despicable state of affairs by Robert Reich is not far fetched. It is reality. (The second phase of Trump’s police state).

Sen. Joe McCarthy in his 1950s quest for communists just dragged people before his committee and ruined their lives. Now, more likely than not, we will simply be dragged to prison or exported to some indiscriminate country. It’s started, and once despots get a taste of it, there’s no end to it. Stalin, anyone?

Ken Grotewiel,

Lawrence