

Angie Schmitt, who wrote this article, and mentioned Ithaca, NY has clearly never visited or lived in Ithaca, NY. While Ithaca itself has a vibrant downtown, is pretty walkable, and has a really great food co-op, it is a high cost of living area. Aside from it being a very expensive college town, it’s situated on one of the great lakes, so it’s also a tourist town, which also drives up the cost of housing/living. As a result, most of the people that actually work in Ithaca end up living several towns over in what is essentially farm communities. No sidewalks, no shoulders, speed limit 55, and an incredibly dangerous place to be a pedestrian. If you want to do anything you have no choice but to drive 15-30 minutes to get to fun things, or to shop. There are many places with the same problem, small vibrant cities with great downtown’s and super unaffordable housing that pushes the rest of us out into the stix with no choice but to drive.
For me the point I want to make is that none of us are safe. We need to protect due process for everyone. Yes there are a subset of people that don’t care about the gov. deporting non citizens. If they see it’s happening to citizens, maybe they will start to care, maybe they will see how wrong it is to violate the rights of immigrants. I dunno. Like how do you reach these people to show them how wrong it all is?