July 22. 2018
Dear editor;
I wish that those who negatively refer to the quarters for the children of the illegal detainees would quit looking out of their navels and go back to their history classes.
My uncle Sterling was a staff sergeant in the Army in Europe during World War II. He helped open and liberate a concentration camp. Those individuals were starved to the point of skin and bones, dressed in rags and were preyed upon by their captors. Now that is a concentration camp!
If the kids being detained had come across the desert, which is filled with their trash, they would have been lying in the sand, prey to bugs and other not-so-nice critters.
Here they had blankets, were separated from older kids who might have been bullies, had food, all of which was paid for by U.S. taxpayers. And when they were released, did they fold up the blankets? No! We watched them walk on them, kick them aside, as so much garbage.
For the bleeding hearts who scream about how inhumane it is to tear a child from its mothers arms, how much difference is there in tearing a child from its mother’s womb, which they consider to be okay. God help the U.S.A..
Evelyn Essling
Aurora