Thank you for Jazmine Ulloa’s July 16 front-page article regarding the “cruel choice” for a Haitian family seeking asylum and many other immigrants in detention (”An impossible choice for migrant families: Children being held by US must be released, but what about their parents?”).
We, too, have a choice to make — a choice regarding our long history of inhumane attacks on people seeking asylum and welcome in the United States.
Will we continue to let ignorance and bigotry shape our policies toward immigrants and refugees, or will we let basic humanitarian principles guide us? Where is the so-called greatness in closing the door on those who request to enter? Where is the boldness and generosity, the sense of responsibility and leadership that people around the world expect from us?
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As a longtime public educator, I have worked with immigrants of many races and social classes — all of them with something great to teach us here, all contributing more than they take away. I am also the proud sponsor of a young man seeking protection in this country. I have seen how the current system makes a life of dignity and conscience nearly impossible for him, and yet he persists.
Separating families, detaining asylum seekers, and constructing barriers to their crossing our borders to make their cases is simply cruel. Now is the time to reverse this tide, one step, one law, at a time.
Susan E. Kalt
Roslindale
The writer is a professor of Spanish at Roxbury Community College and a Documenting Endangered Languages fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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