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The other day, I was sifting through my daughter's school papers and I read through an assignment about "mottos I live by." My daughter wrote, "kindness is the highest form of intelligence" by Wayne Teasdale and "In God we Trust." So good.

I think in light of current affairs with the separation of families at the U.S./Mexico border under the "zero tolerance" immigration policy, these mottos are particularly apt.

As an average citizen, maybe we don't know all the ins and outs of immigration, but our gut, if we're honest with ourselves, tells us t...