Must America turn its back on the refugee? We outlaw their escape from their home countries. We make it illegal for them to seek freedom in America. We hold them in contempt. We call them criminals.
They are pretty much a hiss and a byword.
Financially challenged. Can I call them that? Oh, there must be some rich enough to board a plane to come here, but those aren't the ones we hear about. The common immigrant is a commoner, and he crawls across the rocky desert terrain of northern Mexico to get here.
To get to America.
How is it that we, as Americans, have arrived at having such shallow feelings towards the immigrants -- or, as we are quick to correct each other, "illegal" immigrants. We justify our lack of charity by assuring ourselves that they are criminals of the worst ilk.
Murderers, rapists, we say.
They stumble to our door crying for help. And, we shoo them away like dirty, filthy scum.
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