Letter: A message to the ICE agents in our community
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- May 26
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In my mind, you are up before your shift, drinking mediocre coffee and eating your free continental breakfast at some hotel within our valley while you read the local paper. You’re on temporary duty and looking forward to wrapping up this assignment and heading home to see your friends and family before the summer is over. You’re probably marveling at the beautiful mountains, crisp air, and luscious greenery that is emerging more every day.
While you admire the natural beauty here, I implore you to also see the beauty in the people who live here. We are a diverse, tight-knit community of hard-working individuals. We are CEOs, business owners, construction workers, landscapers, lawyers, health care workers, and more. We are old and young. Some of us are implants who made this our home, and others have been here for years or generations.
Our public schools are filled with talented educators and administrators and a multicultural, ambitious student body that will be the next generation of Eagle County residents who contribute to our community in positive ways. Like me, many of you are military veterans, and you feel a deep sense of patriotism for your country. So I ask you: What could be more rewarding than to move to a community like ours, where you can join the police force and protect and serve everyone, or you could bring your leadership skills to the classroom and become a teacher?
You could even harness your entrepreneurial spirit, take advantage of the small business resources the VA offers, and start your own business, bettering the community with your very own goods and services. Wouldn’t it feel better to help a community rather than to stoke fear and terror under an organization with dubious leadership at best? As patriotic individuals with leadership skills, you have so much potential. Please use it in positive ways.
Alison Atkins
Eagle
Read the letter in the Vail Daily
