A welcome sign of our concern for our freedoms Re: “City Council considers whether to keep cams taking photos of license plates,” April 7 news story It’s a reminder of why I love Denver and Colorado. Denver City Council is debating keeping a license plate recognition program that has proven successful at identifying stolen cars driving past and, by extension, catching the “suspects” driving them. Why the pause by the Council? Privacy concerns! Balancing the greater good with individual freedoms is government operating at its best. One only has to observe our current national government grabbing people off the streets and, without “due process,” but for simply expediency, shipping them off to a hellhole prison in El Salvador. It’s comforting to know someone still cares for the rule of law. Harry Puncec, Lakewood A violation of American values Re: “Federal government detains international student at Tufts,” March 27 news story Watching the video of Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish student working on a Ph.D., is pretty sickening, especially since it is occurring in the United States. First of all, we keep hearing the lie that the administration is only deporting violent criminals. Then we have masked people who claim they are with law enforcement, grab her and handcuff her, and apparently cart her off to Louisiana. She did have a visa allowing her to study in the U.S., which the president’s administration apparently revoked and shipped her to Louisiana. Unlike these agents, Hitler’s SS did not bother wearing masks. One story is that she spoke up and was against the killing of thousands of innocent women and children in Palestinian territories. Target Hamas? Yes. Slaughtering innocents? We all should be against. I guess this is a way that President Donald Trump wants to keep people from traveling to the U.S. and spending dollars here. But America, it is not. It is evil and corrupt, in this 83-year-old’s opinion. Wayne Wathen, Centennial Work hard, pay taxes, get deported Re: “Internal Revenue Service will send immigrant tax data to ICE enforcement,” April 9 news story To Make America Great Again, the IRS will give the tax returns of immigrants who work and pay their taxes to Homeland Security so they can target and deport undocumented immigrants who work in America and pay their taxes. Why not? Makes about as much sense as the Trump tariffs scheme. Jeffrey Stroh, Denver Biden’s brag about job creation I remember when former President Joe Biden boasted about the increase in employment each month. Nobody ever complained that many of those jobs were unneeded government jobs. Now everybody is complaining about the reduction in government jobs, especially the provisional workers who have been employed less than two years – the same two years Biden boasted about rising employment. The chickens have come home to roost. Jim Lloyd, Lakewood Shouldn’t we taxpayers be team owners too? Re: “NWSL stadium: Denver to kick in up to $70M,” April 10 news story So now, after the National Women’s Soccer League team owners have announced that they will bring a new team to Denver and have sold season tickets, the taxpayers of the city find out that they should kick in $70 million dollars to make this work. Why do cities keep doing this? Private capital came up with $110 million to pay the fee for the NWSL expansion franchise. If Denver adds $70 million to the pot, then why should the city not own 39% of the team? Professional sports have become a money spinner for team owners in America. Nonetheless, the taxpayers of Denver are being asked to put their money at risk with no reward for any upside. Would you give someone 39% of the capital needed to start a new business without any ownership rights in the enterprise? So why should the taxpayers of Denver do this for the new NWSL team owners? Guy Wroble, Denver Sign up for Sound Off to get a weekly roundup of our columns, editorials and more. To send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by email or mail.