I Hope You Never...

I hope you never have to make the decision that Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez had to make last weekend.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/06/26/father-daughter-who-drowned-border-dove-into-river-desperation/?fbclid=IwAR2nLzXXw82HumCOR4NG65vB1aXO6UMDyptGRjU9LjSoGHUqyLOChKFyUec&utm_term=.a509922a875e

I hope you never have to leave the place you live and move to a foreign country to escape poverty, violence, or both.

I hope you never have to walk thousands of miles in search of a better life for your family. 

I hope you never have to make a decision to swim to safety and asylum.

I hope you're never in a situation when you are separated from your children needlessly.

For those of you still saying migrants shouldn't come, I hope you are never in the situations chronicled above.  If you aren't, you're lucky.  Lucky that you were born in the USA.

These migrants aren't coming here to take your jobs.  To those of you claiming this, do you pick produce for a living?  Do you clean hotel rooms?  Do you bus tables in a diner?  I am guessing not.  The vast majority of the migrants aren't criminals.  They are people wanting a better life than what their country affords them.  They don't want their children kidnapped...or worse.  They don't want to pay protection money to the local gangs in their country.

To those Americans protesting the loudest over the crisis at the border...what does your god say about those in need?  I know he DOESN'T say, "Just help those who are white, or rich or whatever".  Those in this country who revere our idiot president and his gang of criminals and claim to be Christians:  You're frauds, every last one of you.  I would rather have 20 Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirezes than any ONE of you.

I am not suggesting opening the borders; that is absurd. But what is happening at our southern border is criminal.  The United States is a first world country and we are treating human beings like garbage.  Where is the outrage from pro-lifers?  Where is the outrage from anyone who has a family and a heart?

 "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

THIS is what America is all about.  THIS is what makes America great. 

America was great before the idiot in the white house had red hats made (by people in a Chinese factory, no less) Wonder if those hats are affected by his tariffs?

When this joke of a presidency is over and the history books are written, I would venture to say that there will not be kind words for the 45th president of the United States.  I am sure he will find it unfair, even if it is 100% accurate.

I hope we never have another presidency like this one, in my lifetime.

Read the whole article in the link above.  This is bigger and so much more important than kneeling for the anthem.