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This terrible photo of a drowned father and son reminds of the image of 3-year old Syrian/Kurdish migrant Alan Kurdi laying face down on the beach, dead after trying to find a better life. It galvanized the world to pity the vulnerable and desperate. vox.com/policy-and-pol…
My bad. It is his 23-month old daughter. The good news is that I can that my first thought resonates with xenophobic ex-Brietbart hate mongers terrified of this emotional image destroying their favorite false meme. It is ok to be gracious and merciful. humanevents.com/2019/06/25/the…
Even the rabid Trump fan and Bannon flunky points out that (without any sense of irony) that separating and putting children in cages is bad for Trump's ratings. I won't bore you with the link between deaths and forcing migrants into remote deadly regions but there is a solution.
Migrants, legal and illegal, come to America to work. Just like any other country. And like any other country they go where the jobs are needed. The answer lies in our guest worker visas. With a stroke of his pen Trump could turn criminals into America's economic engine
"Donald Trump has for two consecutive years overseen the lowest refugee admission rates since the modern resettlement system was created in 1980." theguardian.com/us-news/2019/j…
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