The recent article about the community dinner in Waterville taking place despite concerns about ICE is a veiled attempt to create fear and chaos (“New Mainers plan Waterville dinner despite ICE concerns,” Jan. 16). You have nothing factual in this article but rather conjecture. It lacks any fundamental journalistic framework.

I live in Oakland. ICE does not show up randomly to snoop around a gathering such as this but, rather, they are working to seek out those among us who are here illegally. They are highly trained public servants and your paper has become cheapened by what you are attempting to do here. It is publishing nothing more than gossip.

Carol Rose
Oakland