To the editor: Today's solutions become tomorrow's problems. Never was this more apparent than in the story of nine U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents snatching up the father of three American-born children, leaving them, his wife and his mother behind. The man's crimes were nonviolent; his parents brought him here as a teenager. ("Spurned by local law enforcement, ICE stages elaborate immigration raids," Aug. 15)
How will that family survive with their breadwinner forcibly removed for deportation? The impact of myopic ICE bravado falls squarely on the shoulders of stretched-to-the-limit social service agencies and overburdened schools.