First they came for Muslims and I did not speak out because I was not a Muslim. Then they came for the undocumented immigrants and I did not speak out because I was not an undocumented immigrant…
Apparently, our new president means what he says, as terrifying as that is. The Muslim ban. The mass deportations. Torture.
Is this who we are? Are we a people who slam the door in the face of those fleeing persecution? Will we allow our neighbors to live in fear of the knock on the door?
How many people in need of medical care will die as a result of his “Muslim ban”? He and his spokespeople can claim his action was aimed at saving lives, but the truth is, it’s already gotten a woman Michigan woman killed. She was the mother of Mike Hager. Mike is an Iraqi immigrant who heroically assisted the United States military during the Iraq war and who is now a small business owner in Detroit, Michigan. And thanks to Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, his mother is now dead.
Hager was in the process of attempting to bring his mother from Iraq to the United States so she could receive proper medical care for her illness. But even after Hager traveled to Iraq to try to bring her to back Detroit for treatment, he was disallowed from bringing her with him due to Trump’s Muslim ban; he’s a U.S. citizen and he’s not. This cruel rejection leading to her death was despite the fact that the woman has lived in the United States for the past twenty years and she just happened to be visiting Iraq at the time, and despite the fact that her son is an American citizen and a war hero. Read more here.
But now, we are apparently experiencing such rampant paranoia that it’s become necessary to handcuff a 5 year-old little boy and separate him from his mother for 5 hours because he just might pose a threat to Americans? Are you kidding me? The little boy is reportedly a US cit
Press Secretary Sean Spicer had this to say of the 5 year-old: “To assume that just because of someone’s age and gender that they don’t pose a threat would be misguided and wrong.”
U.S. Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland revealed later in a Facebook post that he had informed airport authorities in advance that the little boy was due to arrive, yet the child was still detained.