Truly Sad Picture

The picture of the drowned bodies of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his two-year-old daughter, Valeria, was shocking. They were trying to cross over the Rio Grande from Mexico into the United States.

The two, plus the wife and mother, Tania Vanessa Avalos, were fleeing poverty in El Salvador and had secured a humanitarian visa in Mexico. They were in a migrant camp for two months waiting for asylum in the U.S.

To me, it would take a truly unfeeling person to begrudge them for desiring to want to come to our country, and to flee their country that is mired in poverty and gang crime. I do think a lot of people who say our country can't take anymore immigrants, truly, deep down, realize that is not America's overriding, premier problem.

It's something our country has always done in times of peril--displace the blame. At various times it been the Jews, the Catholics, the Chinese, the Irish, the Italians, the Germans. Enter now the Mexicans and those of the Islamic faith.

President Trump was the right person at the right time to bring the Nativism to fruition.

And it's going to take a lot of people over a lot of time to set things right.

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