The writer of a March letter wonders if anyone is showing compassion for agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Compassion should be for the victims of ICE. These include not only those who’ve been killed, swept away to detention centers or deported but those who have protested or shown up to witness ICE actions, attempting to secure rightful treatment for others, and ended up being brutalized. In the same way that we ask how Germans could turn on their neighbors and participate in Hitler’s quest to eliminate Jews and other people inferior according to his supremacist views, we cannot excuse the ICE agents who have turned on other Americans in cruel and illegal ways.

Rebecca L. Gaff, Rolling Prairie, Ind.

Some Christians support the Trump administration’s policies against immigrants who are stigmatized, rounded up, imprisoned, perceived as criminal and a threat to the country’s economic, social and political stability. They reason that states have the right to enforce boundaries and limit the number of immigrants who can legally enter. Support for state boundaries limiting migrant movement may have nationalistic footing, but does it have Christian grounding? Jesus showed no interest in state boundaries. As the Samaritan woman story (John 4:1-42) illustrates, Jesus trespassed the ethnic, gender, religious and political boundaries of his day.

David L. Swartz, Newton, Mass.