America lost

We are born, we live, we die. The few hours we have been given are precious, though what we do in those few hours lives after us.

Our voyage is short, and we are buffeted by the winds of circumstance, but we have our hands on the tiller. We can at least try be what we wish to be.

The question now: What do we wish to be?

Once we Americans were a welcoming people with open arms, joyful and generous. We were admired for our caring and compassion. Our parents and grandparents came across oceans to build their lives, and in so doing, built America.

We were courageous. We were the greatest generation. We were America the beautiful.

That America is lost.

It is the right-wing, especially, that has changed. The change is is tragic. Eisenhower was not this way.  Ford, Reagan, and the two Bushes were not this way. Even Nixon was not this way.

It may have begun with Newt Gingrich, and his “make ’em work” approach to poverty. Or, it may have begun with the Tea Party, a group espousing a philosophy of closed-fisted stinginess and covetousness.

Whatever and however, it has become the “I’ve got mine, to hell with you” Party of the Rich.  And it has morphed downward from there.

Today, we no longer are joyful and generous, no longer are admired for our caring and compassion. We no longer are courageous.

We fear. We fear the unfortunate weak, begging for entry. We fear them as invading hoards, trying to steal our culture. We fear the black, brown, and yellow. We fear the gay. We fear the Muslim.

America the brave has become a land of selfish cowards, cringing behind a Wall, afraid to welcome or to share.

But no Wall is high enough or long enough to remedy our terror. Another $5 billion to make it taller and billions more to guard it, and still that will not be enough.  More guards, more guns, more Walls — cowardice knows no limits

And, no cruelty to the poor is sufficient. Take away their food; take away their health; take away their homes and their education; take away their children. They deserve whatever misery we can foist on them.

In this vein, Breitbart, a publication of the right, wrote a story about an undocumented father and his young daughter, trying to enter America. They made the perilous journey because he is a father wanting the best for his daughter.

Like most parents, like you and me, the father was desperate to give his daughter a better, longer life than she would have had. But after all the adversity, and before they could reach their goal, the young girl dies.

I’m sure you can visualize the horror. I know you can imagine the grief. You are human.

But Breitbart’s tale is devoid of sympathy or humanity. It focuses on blaming the father for his daughter’s death.

The purpose of the article was to demonstrate that immigrants are not real people, not to be pitied or aided, but rather to be despised and blamed for their own despair.

Deceased Migrant Girl’s Father Did Not Report Illness for 7 Hours, Says CBP

Officials said the agents asked the father the questions in Spanish and translated his answers to English for documentation on the form. The father reportedly checked the box on the I-779 immigration form that said his daughter had no current illnesses.

Travel time by bus on these highly primitive roads in mountainous desert terrain takes about two to three hours. Officials stressed that bus transportation is the fastest means available in this area — keeping in mind that the father had not yet reported the girl to be ill.

At about 4:30 a.m., the bus began loading family unit migrants, including the little girl and her father. At about 5 a.m., the father reported the little girl was ill and vomiting. Border Patrol agents on the bus reportedly called ahead to the station to advise the girl’s condition and request EMT trained agents to meet them on arrival.

At about 6 a.m., the bus arrived at the Lordsburg Station and the girl had reportedly stopped breathing. Agents revived the girl and arranged transportation for her to a children’s hospital in El Paso by helicopter.

The helicopter arrived at 7:45 a.m and took the girl to El Paso. The agents provided ground transportation for the father. During the flight, the girl reportedly suffered cardiac arrest and was revived by the aircrew.

Doctors said the girl suffered brain swelling and liver failure. She died later that day.

She was an innocent little girl, with her full life ahead. She wished for what little girls wish. Her crime and her father’s was to strive for a happy life. Her punishment for that dream was early death.

At the end of the article, dozens of readers commented. Nearly all were of the same ilk: Cruelty and hatred.

Read these comments,  representative and word-for-word. They are typical of what you will find at the end of all Breitbart articles:

Son of Snake Plissken Michaelg8 • 6 hours ago
The father is guilty of child abuse and negligent homicide that is for sure.
The lies put out by the Left wing government and the propaganda bureaus disguised as media are an outrage. This homicide lies with them as well.

LuckyStrike Son of Snake Plissken • 6 hours ago
The father – if indeed he is the real father – as well as MURDERED that little girl.
That man should be tried for child abuse and murder and sent to prison for LIFE.
Repatriate ALL illegal aliens!

MaximusBraveheart LuckyStrike • 6 hours ago
Repatriate ALL illegal aliens; immediately! They are in a race… a mad, dangerous and illegal race to get more Democrat voters!

Homeschool Momma MaximusBraveheart • 5 hours ago
Instead of focusing on the extraordinary efforts to save the girl, all the open borders fascists will do is focus on the fact that the girl died…as if that was somehow the fault of border patrol.

Budda Homeschool Momma • 5 hours ago
The father needs to be charged with child abuse, endangering a minor and manslaughter.

SkipMayfield Budda • 5 hours ago
I believe ALL of the adults arrested in this group need to be charged with the same crime.

sgb1 SkipMayfield • 5 hours ago
They must have all known the child was terribly ill. It makes me wonder if it wasn’t deliberate in order set up a body to carry on about.

gman sgb1 • 4 hours ago
Of course the media will blow this up as being Trump’s fault for not having the Welcome Wagon at the border.
Will the mainstream media report that this child was already sick in Mexico?
Nope.
The parent or Guardian should be charged with child neglect.
What would happen to you or I if we brought our child along during an illegal act?
The mainstream media should be so outraged over American children killed by illegal aliens.

Trump Train aka Honey Badger gman • 4 hours ago
The Mob Dems are the real Murderers for enticing the illegal invaders to come here and break our laws in the first place.
0bama in coordination with the propaganda media and deep state globalists orchestrated this to destroy US.

uvm73 Trump Train aka Honey Badger • 4 hours ago
For me, the sickest part of this story is that we still do not know what illness killed this girl. The invaders are bringing 3rd world diseases with them. Unlike Ellis Island, where there was a natural quarantine period, along with a significant body of water to protect Americans, these invaders carry all kinds of diseases to infect American citizens, including these Border Patrol agents & their families.

Son of Snake Plissken uvm73 • 3 hours ago
A POX on all the children and grand children of the media and Government officials who support this madness. Hate to wish for such but they have caused it so bring it only to the ones who earned it.

Stormwaves uvm73 • an hour ago
Apparently a new form of polio is affecting children in the United States. The media has gone suddenly silent, as has the CDC, on the numbers of children who are now suffering paralysis and what is causing it.

gman Trump Train aka Honey Badger • 4 hours ago
While nobody wants to see a child sick or perish,
I believe they do say not to drink the water in Mexico.
Dumb parents making dumb decisions putting their children in danger.
Everyone of these selfish people could have applied for asylum in their home countries.
Child endangerment at its finest.
They have nobody to blame but themselves

Andrew Scott Carlisle gman • 4 hours ago
The “Father” is just upset he lost his get out of detention free card, probably should have shared some of his water with her instead of keeping it all to himself. The child died BECAUSE of the catch and release policy for illegals traveling with children, get rid of that and he would have left her at home.

Tom Alstadt John Penhale • 2 hours ago
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.” Mat 5:7 This verse is referring to forgiveness against others and showing compassion. It is not a requirement to overlook civil law and allow others to destroy your community, family, and nation.

JessZ John Penhale • 2 hours ago
Jesus said give to Ceasar what is Ceasars and give to God what is God….I take that to mean obey the laws of the Country and obey Gods laws..legal immigrants are all welcome but for those bypassing our laws they are disobeying not only the Countries laws but Gods law…

Daniel Hertlein Trump Train aka Honey Badger • an hour ago
You are dumb as literal dirt. I don’t know how you are able to breath.

Don Wadd Gail Brooks • 2 hours ago
Ever seen a WHITE landscaper in the last 10 years?

Tom Alstadt Don Wadd • an hour ago
Yes. Quite a few. We want LEGAL IMMIGRANTS and cannot tolerate illegal aliens.

JessZ Don Wadd • an hour ago
Actually a lot of the landscapers in our area are white….

Ribert Koonce Don Wadd • 2 hours ago
Nope, like construction workers, they were trashed for cheaper laborers from south of the border more than 30 years ago.

Angela Moore Don Wadd • an hour ago
Go to any majority-white state and you’ll find white people working construction, landscaping, pumping gas, waiting tables, cleaning hotel rooms, etc etc etc. Go to Bernie Sanders state and sit on a park bench for an afternoon, and see all the jobs white folks want to do, you total SFB.

SuperPrivileged Trumpisaliarhiswifeisawhore • 2 hours ago
They won’t hire you because libtards are worthless and incapable of hard work.

Kawboy Trumpisaliarhiswifeisawhore • 2 hours ago
Whatever,the frigging prisoners should be picking the crops instead of sitting on their azzes watching tv or working out? And if migrants are needed then when picking season is over they go home. The illegals and the cheap azzes who hire them ruined the construction industry

This is how far the Republican party has sunk, dark, cold and hate-filled. And with Donald Trump, it has reached its nadir.

There is no warmth, no love. Compassion is derided as weakness. Hatred is strength. Nazis are “good people.” Murderous dictators are admired. Power and realpolitik are all we have.

We are hatred and hated.

Ronald Reagan: “America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere. I’ve spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That’s how I saw it, and see it still.”

That Shining City upon a hill is gone, replaced by the faux gold of a Trump Tower and a hideous Wall.

The America we once knew and loved is lost.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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