We am ashamed to be an American right now, and ashamed of our government leaders.

The practice of separating children from their parents may have stopped, but how are we going to find all the more than 2,000 children who were already separated and sent all over the country — Michigan has many.

They are transferred out of the border areas at night, sneaking away in the dark. No records have been kept, it seems, to trace them. What a nightmare.

We are better than this.

If we hadn’t seen pictures of this we wouldn’t have believed we were capable of this horror. We heard one of the government officials say, “Well, it’s not as if these are our children.” Can you believe it? America, supposedly the leader of the world in ethics, morality, Christian caring, as lost its way.

God forgive us.

Joan Heneveld and Christi Caughey