To the Editor:

I commend Erin McCloskey on her poignant commentary on the inhumane policy enacted by our government of separating children from their parents at the border (“Border Crisis Raises Specter of the Child Lost on the Beach,” 6/27). When I heard that this was being done by the U.S. government I could find no words to express my dismay. Erin McCloskey found them for me.

July 4, 2018