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Sophia4

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12. I woke up this morning feeling so sad because of the plight of the immigrant children.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 12:39 PM
Jun 2018

How can any human being not feel their pain?

I remember visiting my grandmother when I was very young. She was loving and aware of how difficult it was for me to be away from my mother.

I also had to go to a hospital for scarlet fever back then. I remember a nurse trying to get me to take medicine by telling me it was a "cracker," and then my tasting it and being sickened. I felt so angry at having been deceived. I will never, ever forget. I must have been two. Later, people told me I could not possibly remember that because I was too young. But I did, and I do because the situation was just so traumatic. I was sick and away from my mother.

Human children, human babies, need their mothers and fathers around them for a long time. It is a price we pay for the kind of intelligence with which we are born. It is a price we pay for being born aware of our souls.

To think of being tricked out of your mother's arms after that long journey from "home" to America -- an unknown language, an unknown culture, cold and heartless compared to your parents arms, compared to the sounds of their voices.

The people, the American leadership, that perpetrated these crimes toward little children, these kidnapping, these abductions, should have to answer for the unnecessary pain they have caused.

They are assuming that because these refugees did not know the rules, did not know precisely where they should legally enter the country, did not understand our laws, that they were disregarding and breaking our laws. Wrong! And cruelly and intentionally wrong, I am guessing.

What monsters. Just monsters.

How could they do what they did?

Vote them out as soon as possible.

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