To the editor:

My parents were war refugees in their own country. My mother was one of eight children, and her family had to flee their home to escape invading forces. They had to travel over 200 miles to reach safety, on a road teeming with thousands of other fleeing refugees. The biggest fear they had was that the children would get separated and lost along the way. In an almost miraculous outcome, the family remained together and reached the destination safely.

One of the reasons why my parents came to America was to live in a country where they would never live in that kind of fear — the fear of parents being separated from children. After all, this is America, the greatest country on the planet where things like this don't happen.

Yet, here we are. However, it's not an invading army breaking families apart; it's our current government. This is monstrous and unconscionable. How did we get to this? The policy of this administration is not what we the people stand for. Things must change.

John Chung

Barrington