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Country over creed

Separating parents and children at the border and then internment. World War II flashback. We interned the Japanese, but did not separate children from their parents. Germany interned millions in concentration camps and did separate children from their parents.

Of course we adults see a difference, but what does a 4-year-old girl see? Does she understand internment versus the gas chamber? Does she understand illegal immigration versus security threats? No. She only knows her mother is gone and feels all the pain, fear, anxiety and panic that follows.

The filth of this is that the administration not only set the policy, but now blames others for its contemptible cowardly action. Even it knows how evil the policy is.

Is this necessary? Is this who we’ve become as a nation? As Nazis in the eyes of children? If we put country first this way – over the edicts from all gods and all creeds and all codes of moral behavior from time immemorial, then what are we?

Michael D. Runyan

Spokane

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