The recent arrests of several hundred illegal migrants working on a pakalolo farm in California and the subsequent protests, some violent, against the enforcing ICE agents, underscores the deep divides within our country today.

The fact that dozens of children were also found working at this farm seems to have escaped the notice of Hawaii’s Congressional Representatives.

This would explain the absence of any condemnation or outrage that most right-minded citizens would expect from their elected representatives. Instead, the outrage has been directed at the hardworking and law-abiding men and women of ICE who are just doing their job.

Considering that an estimated 500,000 unaccompanied minors have entered our country over the past few years and are still unaccounted for — the majority, victims of sex and human trafficking and child labor — only makes the silence from our elected representatives that much more disgusting and inexcusable.

Randolph Coon

Kula