I am asking you to speak up on behalf of the 740,000 people in your district, for whom you are the voice in Washington, about the increasing violence and cruelty that ICE is creating in American cities.

In 1992, when I was the academic dean at William Penn College, we initiated an exchange program with the Cherkasy Pedagogical Institute in Ukraine. The program was suggested by a local Rotarian and college trustee who had visited Ukraine following its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.