Anyway, here's what I wrote:
I am writing to you today as one decent human being, one
decent American, to another.
The migrant children, some as young as 5 months, having
not only been ripped away from their families, but now being held without
access to proper food, water, medical care, need to be taken care of.
Period.
Full-stop.
Do not use them as a bargaining chip to get funding for any
other thing, including immigration enforcement.
Do not use them to complain, as I have keep hearing politicians
do, that it’s “the other side’s” fault or that the children’s parents broke the
law. I don’t care if their father is Jeffrey Dahmer and their mother is Ted
Bundy. Which, incidentally, these people are not. They are refugees. Maybe ones
that fit our asylum requirements, maybe not. Maybe they are “only” economic
refugees. Maybe they are fleeing climate change or violence. But they are
people and they, particularly their children, now artificially orphaned by the
Trump Administration’s cruel policies, are in distress.
We are Americans. We take care of children. We take care
of people in distress. It is the decent thing to do and Americans are decent
people. Those there, on the ground, including government workers, are trying, even
coming in on their off hours to help. Other Americans are coming with donations
of diapers and soap and toothbrushes and paste – only to be turned away.
Other countries take care of such influxes with refugee
camps and invite in organizations like the Red Cross. Why aren’t we doing something
like that?
We used to be a country that could handle things like
this, would even help other countries.
Please do whatever you can to take care of these
children. And do it without delay.
Thank you.
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