Fear is not a policy.

Hate is not a strategy.

Attacking the character and the sincerity of people fleeing violence and poverty will not secure our borders.

For two years President Trump, along with a Republican House and Senate, did nothing, nada. The result has been an unprecedented spike in migrant-family crossings.

Instead of workable solutions, Donald Trump resorts to bigotry and lies; dehumanizing the ninety million neighbors with whom we share a 1,954 mile border and who constitute our third largest trading partner.

One of six American families is Hispanic or Latino. They contribute, they serve. The crime rate among immigrants remains lower than the U.S. at large – homegrown supremacists are a more immediate threat.

We teach that the Creator endowed us with uncommon virtues as the source of our ‘American Exceptionalism.’ Reagan called America the shining city on the hill. Lincoln called it the last best hope of earth.

When our children hear politicians vilify Mexicans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans and Hondurans as a group — pimping hysteria to win elections — they are learning the opposite lesson.

Warn your children about Donald Trump.

Pat Shiplett

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