The government pretends not to notice the taxes undocumented aliens pay to them. Donald Trump & Family have hired some of the people to work for them.
There are at least a few episodes in the history of the United States of which we are, or at least should be, deeply ashamed. Slavery, our treatment of Native Americans, Jim Crow, Japanese internment camps, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, My Lai, and others. One of those moments occurred eighty years ago today, when the United States government refused to allow the S.S. St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, to dock on its shores. 
Some passengers attempted to cable President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking for refuge, but he never responded. A State Department telegram stated that the asylum-seekers must “await their turns on the waiting list and qualify for and obtain immigration visas before they may be admissible into the United States.”
The ship turned to Canada, but with no luck there either was ultimately forced to turn back to Europe. Ultimately, 254 of the more than…
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Musings on Life & Experience 
Life is so not fair. One must do what one can themselves in their own neighborhood, city, country, world – so many in need and so few hands willing to reach out and actually help
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Thanks, PM. Yes, we each should each do what we can. My mother had Alzheimer’s. My husband was bipolar and our son said I’d kept his father alive for years. He passed away at 86. —- Suzanne
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