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In a letter to the editor published by the Los Angeles Times on February 8, 2026, Manhattan Beach resident Tom Kaminski praised high school students and religious leaders throughout Los Angeles County for their recent public demonstrations against nationwide immigration raids conducted by federal authorities. The letter responds to a series of late January and early February protests triggered by aggressive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tactics, framing these grassroots actions as a vital exercise of constitutional protections. By citing civil disobedience as a necessary check on government power, Kaminski argues that the protection of universal rights is increasingly dependent on the vigilance of the American citizenry rather than administrative policy. The document highlights a significant wave of youth activism where students from numerous regional high schools staged walkouts to demand policy changes regarding immigration enforcement. This surge in student-led protest was bolstered by high-level religious opposition, most notably from the American-born Pope Leo XIV. The Pope recently issued a forceful condemnation of Washington’s current immigration strategies, delivering a courageous exhortation to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that served as a catalyst for local religious leaders, including the Archbishop of Los Angeles, to hold a 'Mass for Peace' in solidarity with the immigrant community. Central to this discourse is a historical appeal to the philosophy of the Founding Fathers. Kaminski invokes an 1786 letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, which posits that liberty is only truly secure when held by the people themselves. By weaving this Enlightenment-era sentiment into the context of modern-day ICE raids, the author suggests that the current atmospheric tension in American politics requires a return to active civic participation. The letter concludes that the collective voices of students and the clergy represent the 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness' that Jefferson envisioned as the bedrock of the American experiment.