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Letter: Trump and Nielsen are monsters

(Pablo Martinez Monsivais | The Associated Press) In this June 20, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump, right, listens as Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, left, addresses members of the media before Trump signs an executive order to end family separations at the border, during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Kirstjen Nielsen, homeland security secretary and enforcer of the inhumane crime at our southern border of separating children from their parents, has been forced to resign. Not because she was too cruel, but because she was not cruel enough.

President Trump has shred existing asylum laws by choosing to arrest and detain people who have not broken the law by crossing the border to seek asylum. By ignoring their asylum rights, Trump has violated principles the U.S. has upheld for over 50 years.

Trump's presidency is the most corrupt administration in U.S. history and yet all his corruption pales in comparison to ripping children from the arms of their parents and putting them in cages. These family separations have scarred many of these kids (and parents) for life, and Trump and Nielsen should go to jail for this inhumane practice. They are monsters.

But they are not the only monsters. Don't forget the spineless, acquiescent Republican congressmen, the Vichy GOP party and the republicans that continue to support this administration.

It breaks my heart to remember there was a time my country asked, "Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.”

Susan Christensen, Salt Lake City

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