Immigrant children sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility on June 18 in Brownsville, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool)
Re: “Plight of immigrant children,” July 16 letter to the editor.
Thank you to letter-writer Henry Lowenstein for showing the heart of America. I was also a child of the Holocaust and one of the 10,000 who were rescued by the British people. If we had no relatives to take care of us, we were put in foster homes. One shipload of children reached Baltimore, but were not allowed to land and were sent to South America. This was a heartless act. Perhaps it is the grandchildren of those refugees who are begging to come to the U.S. We had to sign a statement that when it was safe we would rejoin our families if they were still alive. I am proof that the system worked.
Letap not make the mistake of the 1930s but try a project similar to what the English did. It worked then and can work now.
Save the children! Future generations might thank you.
Peter A. Homburger, Wheat Ridge
This letter was published in the July 19 edition.I take great offense at Henry Lowenstein’s statement that “this country did not show its compassion to my generation … ,” and his question, “Will we turn our backs once again?”
Did we turn our backs when we lost more than 180,000 of our young men and women in the Europe/Atlantic theater during World War II? How much more compassion can a country show?
A country that doesn’t control its borders is no country.
R.L. Donovan, Fort Collins
This letter was published in the July 19 edition.
For information on how to send a letter to the editor, . Follow on Twitter to receive updates about new letters to the editor when they’re posted.
