The normalization of President Donald Trump’s racist, inhumane and cruel treatment of immigrants at the southern border must not be accepted without question.
Where is the national outrage in America against such obviously racist policies?
Even the national media and the ACLU were not able to stop the inhumane treatment which separated children from parents at the southern border.
There are still young children who have been separated from their parents since July.
How have we gone from acceptance to rejection of immigrants?
The irony is incredibly discriminatory because most Americans are from immigrant families.
Laws regarding asylum in America were legislated to protect innocent victims from certain death or torture in their native countries.
Trump cannot determine the fate of migrants on the basis on national origin, ethnicity or religion without violating legal precedent provided to protect those seeking asylum.
Are we, as American citizens, going to allow our borders to be militarized and our government to establish new laws that prohibit those who justifiably seek asylum?
The tragedy at the southern border will test our resolve to speak out against injustice when we witness the normalization of injustice.
Martin Luther King Jr. stated in his letter from the Birmingham Jail on April 16, 1963, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
David Cowan,
Port Angeles