I’ve just finished watching a documentary called “The U.S. and the Holocaust.” One of the many terrible takeaways is how America refused to allow European refugees to seek asylum in our country, both before and after the war. It is absolutely appalling that people at the highest levels of the State Department and the Roosevelt administration suppressed evidence of the killing of millions to keep the American people from realizing the true situation. One of the survivors interviewed for the program asked whether the U.S. was complicit in the murders. I have to ask myself the same question.
Now we stand in front of another set of refugees, this time from the Americas, fleeing murder, torture, and other heinous acts. We have plenty of room in our country. We have help wanted signs in nearly every business, so there is obviously work. Are we complicit in the deaths of thousands of people trying for safety and a better life for their children, but who are turned away from our borders, forced to return to the country that persecutes them?
Please ask your elected officials to work on revising our immigration policies so that we may truly live up to the religious principles so many people say they revere.
