Letters to the Editor | Jan. 18, 2026

I rarely agree with Donald Trump, but he’s correct about one thing: There is domestic terrorism in America. The perpetrators have been spotted in major cities across the country. They are brazen in their assaults on citizens, wear masks to conceal their identity, drive unmarked vehicles, and rarely identify themselves. They kidnap and hold victims without due process. They carry long guns and many other weapons to cause panic and fear in our communities. We must insist that our elected government officials band together to eliminate this threat. We demand that all U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents be detained and disarmed, and that ICE be abolished to ensure our safety and protect our rights.

Barry Adams, Malvern

After almost a year of outrages, large and small, Donald Trump now has blood on his hands. While we seem to be almost immune to caring about the 100 or so casualties of Trump’s bizarre bombing of alleged drug boats, plus another 100 killed in the kidnapping attack on Venezuela, there is now the death of an American citizen in Minneapolis at the hands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Despite Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s attempt to spin the horror, it is apparent that this is the tragedy we all feared when we first saw masked thugs, alleging to be law enforcement, cloaked in black and unidentified on the streets of American cities. There was unintended meaning in the fact that The Inquirer’s front-page story happened to jump to Page 6 exactly between Noem calling it “an act of domestic terrorism” and saying the victim was the terrorist. For once, she seemed to be telling the truth: that ICE is a domestic, government terrorist organization. While Trump’s sycophants help him turn our world upside down, Americans need to find ways to stand up and defend ourselves and each other. It is time to bring our feckless leaders to justice before they destroy any more of our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

Joe Jones, Mount Holly

Just to be clear, Vice President JD Vance said about the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot the woman in Minnesota: “This is a guy who’s actually done a very, very important job for the United States of America … he’s been assaulted. He’s been attacked. He’s been injured because of it.” Really? Let’s remind the VP that those exact sentiments apply to all police present at the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, when armed Donald Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol. What’s changed?

Dennis Fisher, Media

During a lengthy interview in the Oval Office, our authoritarian president declared that no law, domestic or international, can limit his use of the power he believes American voters bestowed upon him. What can stop him? “My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me,” he said. No need here to make the case that Donald Trump, who by all rights should be sitting in a federal penitentiary right now, has any morality.

Those statements, combined with his lawless actions, should at long last be the breaking point, the point of no return, for House and Senate Republicans. As unpalatable as is the thought that his snarky prevaricating vice president will be elevated to chief executive, Congress must now impeach and convict the greatest villain to ever sit in this nation’s highest seat of power. That may require Pennsylvania’s Republican senator to, for the first time, stop blindly toeing the line for Trump and his divisive and often absurd policies.

David Kahn, Boca Raton, Fla.

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