We will feel crackdown in wallets, at tables

Re: “How will Trump’s crackdown affect area?” (Jan. 25).

Most undocumented workers are in the agricultural sector. If they are deported, it is going to affect all of us in terms of productivity and the prices of food.

Deportations will have negative effects in separating families and are considered cruel in every culture. It also will affect our local economies by disrupting food supply chains.

Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and actions will force many of the food system workers underground leading to wage and safety violations, sexual harassment and violence, and much more.

— Mohan Raj, San Jose

Trump’s naivete on display in Gaza demand

Re: “Trump calls for clearing of Gaza” (Jan. 27).

I wonder what Donald Trump is thinking. He has his own refugee problem, which he has labeled illegal immigrants, and his solution to this problem is mass deportations. Yet he wants Egypt and Jordan to accept Palestinian refugees.

Are these refugees in favor of being displaced, this time to another country, after the devastation they experienced? Does he believe these countries won’t experience the same problems he is having with refugees? Will citizens of those nations welcome them? Is he offering nations any monetary help? Last I heard he is withholding international financial aid.

Trump’s naivete of the world’s problems and lack of compassion for people are further proof that he is not really worthy of being our president.

— Thomas Rudolph, Brisbane

Donald Trump doing little to meet challenges

Among Donald Trump’s “challenges” from his inauguration speech: “The corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from its citizens.”

Reality: We have the greatest concentrations of wealth since the “Gilded Age” of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They were proximately displayed on the inaugural stage: Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, et al. Insert tech in lieu of robber barons.

Another: Government “fails to protect law-abiding American citizens by letting in dangerous criminals across our borders.”

Reality: He pardons rioters injuring police while trashing the Capitol. How low will he go? What will he do with AI? How much has he and his family personally gained from crypto? How many groups of people will he victimize with fear?

I’m all for unity and civil discourse but the above and many other heinous lies and policies must be met with resistance without violence. Speak loud and clear.

— Keith Layton, El Sobrante

Executive orders reveal Trump’s phony populism

As I observe how Donald Trump’s intention to reverse any programs that benefit us commoners but are not needed by his plutocrats, I am reminded of an old Turkish proverb:

“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.”

— Jim Adams, Livermore