Alas, the indifferent teens on the beach learned they did have an obligation to help the drowning man. They laughed and recorded him drowning. He's dead now and they're facing charges.
I mention this to draw a parallel:
Does Congress have an obligation to shelter children who have grown up in America, gone to our schools and lived among us? What will happen to them if we cast them out unprepared and unprotected to the lands their parents fled? Will they too die? Will Congress be held accountable just like those feckless teens?
What is America's obligation here to life, humanity, what is America but a land of immigrants. The first immigrants had no passports. They knew nothing but they came to a new land in search of a better life, a chance at life, liberty and happiness.
The children of DACA knew no better, because they were children. Here is our chance to teach them what America really means. Will we open our hearts and show some compassion, or is America already so jaded that we would do this to children living within our borders?
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