Readers React: An undocumented mother was deported. Why should we feel bad?

To the editor: You can run one of these “feel bad” stories every week on someone who was deported and separated from his or her family, but it doesn’t change the fact that the mother in this article was breaking the law. (“Dreaming of a happy ending: Bedtime stories capture the longing of deported parents and their children,” Nov. 14)

The family is separated because the mother was here illegally. She blatantly sidestepped the law and married a U.S. citizen with whom she had three children. She had to know that deportation might occur.

She wouldn’t consider the possibility of having the boys live with her in Mexico because “neither the schools nor the standard of living were up to par with the U.S.”

This mother has been in control of her actions the entire time. She made the decision to break the law, and she made the decision to leave the children in the U.S. Her plan didn’t work.

Jo-Anne Collins, Fountain Valley

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