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Typical Trump, attempting to reject the ghosts of his own past, and now of our nation’s as well. Read more

Typical Trump, attempting to reject the ghosts of his own past, and now of our nation’s as well.

The asylum seekers at our southern border, asking for our help, are in fact a karmic caravan, composed of thousands fleeing horrendous and life- threatening conditions in their own countries. Those conditions are a result of well over a century of socially and politically destructive meddling by the United States in the lives of virtually all the countries of Central and South America.

The U.S. has actively undermined would-be humanistic and progressive governments, and encouraged repressive and even murderous ones, specifically in order to benefit American corporate and political interests — treating South American countries as little more than subservient estates. The result: extreme social inequality, con- comitant crime and outright terror resulting, unsurprisingly, in masses of refugees.

The refugees personify the negative karma we have helped create. Instead of compassion, our president responds cruelly with denigration and increased mistreatment. Is this the pattern we the people should choose to continue?

Don Hallock

St. Louis Heights

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