To the Editor:
I think everyone has seen the picture on TV or in the newspaper of the father and daughter face down on a river bank in the water. It seems it has been broadcast around the world. If you enter America with a child you’ll stay. So these people sell everything, borrow and come.
Some come all the way from Africa, 5,000 miles to Mexico, crossing at Texas. A Christian group pays their bus fare to Portland, Maine, a city of 67,000 people. They are flooded.
July 3, 2019
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