Letter: American’s welcoming beacon has become a prison-camp spotlight
(James Quigg | The Daily Press | The Associated Press) Homeland Security buses enter the Federal Correctional facility in Victorville, Calif., on Friday, June 8, 2018. More than 1,600 people arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border, including parents who have been separated from their children, are being transferred to federal prisons, U.S. immigration authorities confirmed Thursday. They said they're running out of room at their own facilities amid President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration. There are 1,000 beds available in this prison.
By Abel Saiz | The Public Forum
| June 17, 2018, 1:00 p.m.
| Updated: June 16, 2018, 8:46 p.m.
As a church that holds, defends and believes in the sanctity of the family unit, I implore those in positions of power to stand up, step forward and speak up to what is going on at our southern border.
What is happening is not unlike the atrocities of internment camps or concentration camps of the past which is an abomination in the eyes of our creator.
Are we no longer the America of welcoming compassion or the beacon on the hill? Has that beacon just become another searchlight of a prison camp?
In God’s name, what are we becoming as a people and a nation?
Abel Saiz, Sandy