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Image taken from July 2nd, 2019 Time Article A Reckoning After Trump’s Border Separation Policy: What Kind of Country Are We?
By Linda Kelley Freivalds
Published July 3rd, 2019
We can step up and fix immigration
I’ve been amazed and shocked by President Donald Trump and his administration’s positions on so many issues, I cannot count. But watching the news with photos of congressional visits to refugee sites in Texas I am appalled, embarrassed, ashamed, discouraged, saddened and whatever other words are available to see the photos of what our country is doing to people who are only trying to escape tragedy and difficulty in their home countries. We, America, are acting no better than other despotic countries.
My husband and his family escaped from Latvia in 1944 when the Soviet Union invaded their country. His family was fortunate to be taken in by the U.S. troops at a displaced persons camp in Austria and finally was transported to the United States. John, my husband, to pay back the gift of becoming an American, sponsored a Cuban family when Fidel Castro kicked out 350,000 people who are now thriving in the United States.
We did it before; we can do it again.
Linda Freivalds, Wayzata