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Letter: Do what you can to stop this atrocity

FILE - In this March 27, 2019, file photo, Central American migrants wait for food in a pen erected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to process a surge of migrant families and unaccompanied minors in El Paso, Texas. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he's sending another 1,000 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border and blasted Congress as a "group of reprobates" over the growing humanitarian crisis. Abbott said Friday, June 21, 2019, that the additional Guard members will assist at detention facilities and at ports of entry. . (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)

I feel compelled to write this letter. I like to think of myself as the kind of person who would have spoken out in the 1950s against segregation, who would have spoken out against the internment in concentration camps of Japanese Americans, who would have stood against the attempted genocide of Jews by Hitler, or the attempted genocide of indigenous people all over the world.

I am not comparing the situation at our southern border to these events. It certainly takes less courage to stand against this atrocity than those of the past.

I don't believe this letter absolves me of any guilt, I am a citizen of this country. I simply must do whatever I can to stop this injustice from ever occurring again, and so must you.

Whether you write your representative, demonstrate or simply refuse to vote for any representative in the government who allows this atrocity to occur, you must do what you can. The world is watching. History is watching.

Steven L. Pappas, Salt Lake City

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