Name 'em and shame 'em

Hundreds of alumni from the high school that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen attended in Florida have penned a letter expressing outrage about the harsh immigration policies instituted in part by Nielsen that have resulted in the separation of thousands of children from their parents, and asking school officials to condemn them.

The digital letter was drafted Monday after a group of alumni of Berkeley Preparatory School in Tampa.

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The more than 600 signatories to the open letter include members of every class since 1978, as well as alumni from as far back as the class of 1969. It has also been signed by dozens of current students, parents and family members of alumni, and by faculty and former faculty, including a former school headmaster.

The letter cites the school’s creed: “Berkeley puts people in the world who make a positive difference.”

“Given the facts at hand, we do not have faith in Secretary Nielsen to live the values of our alma mater or to make any decisions concerning outcomes for children at the border,” the letter reads. “ We recognize that it would be easy to dismiss our request as absurd or out of your purview — it would be, in many ways, disadvantageous to Berkeley to chime in. But morality transcends respectability, and today children are removed from the protection of their parents to instead be kept in cages … by a graduate of our institution.”

  WaPo