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Won’t someone think of the children?

To the Editor:

Listen, if you will. A small child somewhere in the United States crying out in the night. She doesn’t call out in English, nor in Spanish, but in k’iche, her native language of Guatemala. No one understands her; there is no one to comfort her. Her mother has been taken away.

Consider, if you dare. The twisted mind of the person who designs such a torture. 

Ponder this. These people still having power over our lives, even though this is our country. We are not some feudal medieval kingdom. Nor are we some Nazi police state. This is America.

Imagine, if you will. Voting these people out of power. Voting out the congressmen who enable such schemes. This is America.  We have elections. Vote’em out.

Paul Strop

Waynesville

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