Risk of Separation for Illegal Alien Families Under the Amnesty Law

Whenever politicians and other professional do-gooders come up with weeping-heart pronouncements, their motives must be questioned.

One reads in The Times that the insidiously cruel INS callously refuses to bend the law in order to accommodate illegal aliens who will be deported because of their ineligibility for amnesty even though a relative may be eligible, thus separating families and committing, one cannot help inferring, a crime we so condemn the Soviet Union for.

The sad stories used as examples--such as the one about a distraught woman who laments: “How can one live without one’s son?”--fail to bring tears to my eyes, however.

This is not the Soviet Union. No one is prevented from leaving.

HORACIO HANSON

Torrance