It is getting harder and harder to read newspapers — not that your writers and other journalists aren’t doing an excellent job! But I am feeling physically sick right now after learning that a day care center in my neighborhood was Wednesday’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement target. Those poor tiny tots watching their caretaker forcibly abducted. I can picture the little ones screaming, the other teachers and parents trying to comfort them. But what will they say? Where is the comfort?

I’m trying to imagine the effect these actions would have had on my son when he was a toddler, or on me or his kind teachers. Where are they taking that teacher? She took care of babies and is a mom herself. I am praying for her and her family — and I’m praying that our country does not continue to descend into the world of 1930s Germany, that we can somehow make amends for our sins before it’s too late.

Diane O’Neill, North Center