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Lawler’s Failure to Condemn Separation, Deportation Policies is Wrong

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Rep. Mike Lawler said Trump’s promise to deport millions of immigrants is unrealistic.

Yet, who can forget the horror of Trump’s child separation policy when thousands of children – many of whom were infants – were ripped from their parents’ arms. We saw videos of children in cages screaming and crying “Mami” or “Papi.”

To this day there are still more than 1,000 children who have not been reunited with their parents.

It is beside the point that there will be legal challenges to Trump expanding executive power by using The Alien and Sedition Act, calling in the military, revoking TPS status, putting people in internment camps, etc. These actions might eventually interrupt this brutal process, but not until mass deportations traumatizes countless U.S. families.

So, what is the point? Well, how about listening to Trump’s belief “I don’t know if you call them people. In some cases, they’re not people.”

I will not vote for a person to become President of the United States or any Republican – like Mike Lawler – who does not condemn “the greatest mass deportation program in history.” It’s unconscionable!

Betty Ann Morton
Yorktown Heights

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