On immigration, have we lost humanity?

Children in cages? Children as young as 3 defending themselves in court with no attorneys or parents present? Has the country gone mad?

People in the future will wonder how such a splendid country got so low.

I can only imagine the horror these parents are feeling, not knowing where or how their children are, or how to reach them. Some organization needs to use DNA, not try to find IDs on people who have no way to get them.

DNA is the magic that could unite a parent and child anywhere at any time. I’m sure in the detention centers, or at the U.S. embassies of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico, parents would walk across stones or fire to give samples of their DNA to recover their children.

The parents’ only crime was to try to protect their children from the terrible violence on the streets of their home countries. I’ve seen some immigrants in my living room, showing me their scars, showing me where bullets entered their heads. What would you do in those situations to protect your children?

Someone wrote on Facebook that this separation was the same as that of military families. Not true. As sad as those separations are, the children know why and where their parents went, and they talk by Skype, and they know it wasn’t their fault they were separated, and they are with other loving family members, not in cages.

This cruelty was predictable. We were warned when the president was a candidate and started calling innocent hardworking family members rapists and murderers to make us hate them, that something like this might be coming. Those hate-filled comments gave people the excuse to look the other way when this happened. Well, it’s here now.

We must not rest a second from protesting and calling Congress until each child is back in their parents’ arms. Fran B. Reed

Hilton Head, S.C. WANT TO COMMENT?