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<THREAD>“Honduras has the world's highest murder rate and high levels of sexual violence” w most living in extreme poverty & much unemployment. A lg % are single moms. Roman Catholicism is the main religion; sm scale agriculture’s the main economy. The life threatening

2/trek to possible USA asylum is >1600 miles. They’re unable to carry more than 1 btl of water & food is whatever is found in trash or donated by strangers along the way. The trip is their last hope. It’s not that they’re going TO the US but LEAVING the hell of Honduras.

3/I don’t have the answer to the “caravan” or “immigration” situation. That’s for global minds more astute than mine. I do have observations to share though. *Immigration levels have been much higher than they are now. *POC, Muslims, LGBTQ & Jews have all been targeted

4/with vile bigoted rhetoric & actions. I wld hope if the situation got so bad in our country bc of govt persecution to a lg population of us, that Canada, UK or one of our allies wld take us in. *Although times have changed, we must remember that all of us got here by

5/ancestors who generations ago came here much like the Honduran ppl & for the very same reasons. *Did you catch that they are Catholics? Uh, “Christians.” *Our money says “In God we trust.” *This Admin has aligned itself with Evangelical Christians which means

6/spreading the gospel & love of Jesus Christ. The Great Commission was to spread the Good Word world wide with all people. *”These people” are the demographic employed at Mar-A-Lago & in Calif fields thru special visas doing work that Americans turn down.

7/*In 2015 undocumented immigrants paid $23.6 Billion in taxes for benefits they weren’t entitled to use & filed 4.4 Million tax returns w/o social security numbers. *Remember Lady Liberty & her inscription.

What do we do? I don’t know. Can we handle UNLIMITED asylum

8/seekers? No
Can we come to some sort of consensus where we compassionately take an appropriately large number (compare us to other developed countries & the # we take shd be comparable esp when adjusted for GDP, population & land size)? I think so. It wld mean a bipartisan

9/think-tank effort to get it right. No kids in cages. Diplomacy with Mexico & Honduras also. All hands on deck to handle this caravan right & prevent future ones. #Democrats do NOT believe in wide, open borders like Trump is saying but Dems DO believe in

10/human rights, compassion, treating ppl with dignity & helping our fellow man when in need. America used to be the example for truth, honor, dignity, human rights & democracy. Let’s get back to that.@KamalaHarris @SenSchumer @TheDemocrats

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