by Sandy » Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:36 pm
We have a tendency as Americans to take the liberty that we wake up to every day and the prosperity and relative safety that we live in for granted. Our eyes tend to move past unpleasant things that we are not personally experiencing. The attention of the American people needs to be drawn to what is happening to the people, mostly impoverished Central Americans desperately trying to stay alive and keep their children safe, who are being detained along our border. People locked up in cages, separated from their children, sleeping on floors in some cases without blankets. What's going on there is absolutely inexcusable. Don't even argue back that they are "lawbreakers" because they have tried to cross the border illegally, that is just a demonstration of a calloused, uncaring attitude blinded by prejudice and hatred.
There have been some groups of Christians who have tried to help by taking supplies and attempting to help parents locate kids, mostly Catholic relief services, but they have been turned away. Turned away.
This particular migration to the United States is our fault. We're the market for the drugs that the cartels are terrorizing and turning countries into lawless anarchies for. But our billionaires are worth more than the impoverished Central Americans so we cut what aid they were getting to help fight the problem so the billionaires can have a tax cut. Trump is too busy entertaining his communist friend in North Korea to pay attention.
I don't see much about what is going on at the border from my evangelical friends on social media. They're either blind to it because they aren't paying attention, or they have isolated themselves from it by watching fake news that doesn't report the truth, or they don't really care and they think these people are getting what they deserve. Why isn't Franklin Graham boiling with indignation over this? Doesn't he fly planeloads of dollar store junk all over the world, including to Central America so that kids can have a gift and get the gospel message at Christmas, or is that just a fundraising ploy? Where's the megachurch pastors who are always scamming for photo ops?
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