People troubled by the president-elect’s threat to deport immigrants should email President Biden asking him to preemptively pardon immigrants. Writers might write a letter something like this one: “Dear President Biden, In addition to using the pardon power only for the worthy purpose of protecting political figures who might be attacked by the new administration, please use the power also to pardon preemptively all immigrants to the United States who are “undocumented,” as well as those who are “documented” by their current use of our laws to gain legal residency via asylum applications, DACA status, TPS status or one of the other available methods. This use of your power is moraL as well as political!

Details supporting this request can be found in a persuasive article in The Nation written by Chris Lehmann (“President Biden Should Issue a Blanket Pardon of Undocumented Immigrants.”) In pardoning immigrants you will protect from death or persecution many hundreds of thousands of people at risk in their countries of emigration or in the countries to which they would be deported, and preserve the integrity of countless U.S. families which include both documented and undocumented members.”

Wiltrud R. Mott-Smith

Loudon