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Letter: How can we treat children like this?

(Cedar Attanasio | AP file photo)  The entrance to the Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Migrant children being housed at the Border Patrol facility near El Paso appeared mostly clean and were being watched by hallway monitors on Wednesday, less than a week since they reported living there in squalid conditions with inadequate food, water and sanitation.

(Cedar Attanasio | AP file photo) The entrance to the Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Migrant children being housed at the Border Patrol facility near El Paso appeared mostly clean and were being watched by hallway monitors on Wednesday, less than a week since they reported living there in squalid conditions with inadequate food, water and sanitation.

Have you seen the renewed news of children locked in cages at our southern border, made to sleep on a cold concrete floor, deprived of any sanitary conditions?

Separated from their families, living in filthy cages? We kinda forgot about them for a while, didn’t we?

President Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen for not being mean enough to the people who are desperately looking for a better life.

We must impeach and imprison Trump. Fire and convict his lick-spittle toadies who run his border control atrocity.

How in God’s name can we treat children so badly?

Michael P. Greer, Cottonwood Heights

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