What’s sadder and more horrific than the “Border Trail of Tears”? Where ICE gestapo troopers rip children from their parent’s arms and place them in separate internment camps, even “Tender Age” camps for babies! For those who have never seen the movie: Sophie’s Choice — rent it. In Nazi-occupied territory, Sophie has to choose which child to give to the Nazis; she got to keep one, for awhile. Children being loaded on train-cars to be shipped somewhere, reminds me of Nazi Germany, where — men, women and children were loaded on train-cars and shipped to death camps. ICE officials supposedly told children they were going to get baths — in order to separate them willingly from their parents; it was a trick. Reminds me of Jews, led into gas chambers, having been told they were showers. Our country is becoming increasingly authoritarian under Trumpian ideals. He recently tweeted, “Democrats are the problem. They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our country, like MS-13. They can’t win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!” He is constantly spewing his hateful propaganda. The MS-13 gang started in Korea-town, in LA, USA. And Democrats are in the minority in the House and Senate; Dems are not calling the shots in Congress. People are pouring across our borders to flee violence and certain death in El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, the Congo, elsewhere. What can the international community do about these situations? What global fixes can we employ, without creating further devastation? In 1883, American-born Emma Lazarus wrote the sonnet, engraved on the Statue of Liberty, also known as the Mother of Exiles: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tossed to me, I left my lamp beside the golden door”. This was the ideal for America; we are a nation of immigrants. I ask all the Pro-Life people to have compassion for the world’s children. And more biblical than obeying man-made laws is obeying God’s Word. Isaiah 43: “Fear not for I am with thee. I will bring thy seed from the east and gather thee from the west”. Exodus 23:9 “Do not oppress a foreigner, because you were foreigners”. And Jesus beseeched us, “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God”.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Jun 26 2018
Border Trail of Tears.
What’s sadder and more horrific than the “Border Trail of Tears”? Where ICE gestapo troopers rip children from their parent’s arms and place them in separate internment camps, even “Tender Age” camps for babies! For those who have never seen the movie: Sophie’s Choice — rent it. In Nazi-occupied territory, Sophie has to choose which child to give to the Nazis; she got to keep one, for awhile. Children being loaded on train-cars to be shipped somewhere, reminds me of Nazi Germany, where — men, women and children were loaded on train-cars and shipped to death camps. ICE officials supposedly told children they were going to get baths — in order to separate them willingly from their parents; it was a trick. Reminds me of Jews, led into gas chambers, having been told they were showers. Our country is becoming increasingly authoritarian under Trumpian ideals. He recently tweeted, “Democrats are the problem. They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our country, like MS-13. They can’t win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!” He is constantly spewing his hateful propaganda. The MS-13 gang started in Korea-town, in LA, USA. And Democrats are in the minority in the House and Senate; Dems are not calling the shots in Congress. People are pouring across our borders to flee violence and certain death in El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, the Congo, elsewhere. What can the international community do about these situations? What global fixes can we employ, without creating further devastation? In 1883, American-born Emma Lazarus wrote the sonnet, engraved on the Statue of Liberty, also known as the Mother of Exiles: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tossed to me, I left my lamp beside the golden door”. This was the ideal for America; we are a nation of immigrants. I ask all the Pro-Life people to have compassion for the world’s children. And more biblical than obeying man-made laws is obeying God’s Word. Isaiah 43: “Fear not for I am with thee. I will bring thy seed from the east and gather thee from the west”. Exodus 23:9 “Do not oppress a foreigner, because you were foreigners”. And Jesus beseeched us, “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God”.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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