2008: Bush proud to sign bill that passed unanimously giving substantial new protections to unaccompanied minors arriving at the border.
2014: “Send them home with birth control” (actual sign carried by woman protesting the arrival of children at the border.
I just know that there are still people who resent FDR allowing Jews who had escaped from Nazi Germany to be refused entry to Miami in 1939 and returned to Europe where many of them eventually died in the camps. Where is their horror at the prospect of returning children en masse to the murder capitol of the world without the hearings provided for by a unanimous(!) Congress just six years ago?
Martin Luther King said, with no math to back it up, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” A more accurate statement might be, the line of the moral universe is long, and it tends to revert to the mean, the very mean.
Amen.
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