Ben Jezovnik’s letter of Feb. 16 questioned why Seneca Valley parents would be concerned over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement extracting illegal immigrants from school premises.

Having raised two boys adopted from Central America, I can relate to the SV parents’ concerns. Both of my boys became naturalized U.S. citizens as infants, but they certainly never carried citizenship papers to school.

What’s to stop an overzealous ICE agent from arresting them and every other student with Hispanic features simply because they couldn’t prove they were citizens.

Jezovnik thought parents should be more concerned about learning, as if students seeing their friends dragged out of class and thrown into an ICE van would have no impact on the learning environment.

If you live only in a white-skinned world you don’t have these concerns. When you have a family that includes a variety of skin colors, it’s something that concerns you every time your child walks out the door.

Rodney J. Gasch, Forward Township