We Americans have the right and the responsibility to manage immigration into our country. Each of our past presidents has removed undocumented immigrants.

But for Donald Trump, it’s not enough to simply round up and deport. He needs to see the terror in immigrant eyes.

He’s been tweeting phony dates when mass deportations will be carried out — last Sunday was one of them — then he cancels the roundup. It is a torture meant to ratchet up the very real fear that families will be separated and loved ones will be lost.

Donald Trump brags to his followers that he has unlimited power to inflict cruel and unusual suffering on ‘those’ people.

Cruelty can undo a great nation.

Pat Shiplett

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