‘Death Squads? Could Be’
Harold Ezell, Western regional commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, is a danger to public safety. His remark that reports of Salvadoran death squad activity in Los Angeles are simply an “orchestrated PR campaign” (July 28) of the religious sanctuary movement could be dismissed as stupid, if it were not so vicious. It flies in the face of all the evidence.
Ezell’s comment should not be taken as just another perspective or bias in the Central American policy debate. Rather, it is a textbook example of the big lie. Death squads operating out of sight in El Salvador and Guatemala could kill thousands with hardly a ripple in the consciousness of the American public, but the truth will be harder to disguise when Los Angeles becomes their home turf.
DAVID CHANDLER
Upland
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