Dear Mr. Trump,

Many in your administration – surely including you – should go to jail for kidnapping.

Under your direction, ICE agents ripped children from their parents’ arms and took them to distant places without even bothering to keep track of who belonged to whom. To make matters worse, you have failed to comply with a court order to return the youngest of these victims to their parents. I’ve read that some of the children may never see their parents again, as you have no way of reconnecting everyone. You’ve turned babies into orphans.

Your excuses for not returning all of the children now are phony, Sir. Your claim that you’re protecting these children makes me want to puke. You imposed the severest trauma imaginable on these children – short of outright killing them – by taking them from the relatives who cared for them. And now, really, you’re so concerned about their welfare that you won’t return them?

Under Texas Penal Code  § 20.04, kidnapping is “intentionally or knowingly abduct[ing] another person” and aggravated kidnapping may be found when the intent of the kidnapper is to “terrorize [the abductee] or a third person.” You ordered these separations to terrorize people who sought refugee status in the United States. Accordingly, you and your goons are guilty of aggravated kidnapping and should be prosecuted.

Also, since you transported the victims across state lines, you’re also guilty of violating federal kidnapping laws, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1201, the punishment for which may be – and should be in your case – life imprisonment.

You’ll be out of office before the statutes of limitations run. But, in the meantime, you can be held in civil contempt and jailed by the judge whose order you ignored. If I were you, Sir, I’d pack a toothbrush.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger