Criminals must be processed, even parents

For all the protesters advocating keeping children with their parents who illegally crossed our border, there is a fundamental issue that they are ignoring: All lawbreakers (whether it's assault, theft, burglary, trespassing, or any other violation of the law) are obligated to go through the normal institutional criminal processing. Is it appropriate, or even allowed, to have a child accompany them through this traumatic but necessary ordeal? I’m sure the re- sponse would and should be “no.”

Then why would an exception be made for the lawbreakers violating our immigration laws? Whatever the final outcome, there is no question they are lawbreakers and must go through that process. Or is this a case where illegal immigrants should be given more rights than our own citizens? Protesters would be better served using their energies trying to change laws instead of their anarchic philosophy of ignoring the law. William Alford Palm Bay, Fla.

No one wants to face the hard truth. There would be no “crisis” if the parents and/or guardians of these children didn’t use them as human shields and bargaining chips. It is not the United States that has put these children in this position. Time for personal accountability. A very unpopular thing in perpetual victimology. There is a right way and a wrong way to do things. Breaking into a person’s home and demanding to be taken care of at the owner’s expense is the wrong way. Andrew Zaelit

If separating parents and children is so despicable, then why aren’t Democrats trying to change the laws and bring an immigration reform bill to fruition, instead of playing a social media blitz of propaganda.

All about “dump Trump” and nothing about fixing our broken immigration system. Larry O’Neill