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Jan 2019
Close your eyes,

Now imagine you are an immigrant family who came to America to improve your situation.

Eyes still closed?

Now imagine your family working odd jobs any jobs to improve their situation.
Eyes still closed?

Now imagine your family has grown and have children and are working to improved their situation.

Life has moved on, wars have gone and come. The wall in Germany was torn down uniting that country and the World.

Civil Rights did happen. But you might not know they way History repeats itself.

America has gone through 45 presidents. Our first black president made history, Yes 44 is still missed today.

Eyes still closed.

Now imagine your   children’s children have outlived you and working hard to improve their situation.

Eyes still closed?

Now imagine it is 2019 we have a president who has no clue what it is to struggle to make ends meet, pay bills, put food on the table, make the rent or mortgage.

Who wants to revert back to the days of Germany and build a wall to  separate families, to keep families out who are wanting that American life they hear so much about.

Eyes still closed?

Now imagine ICE agents have come to your families doors to deport them as to tell them they are no longer welcomed in America.

Their years of serving this country meant nothing and their years of building businesses and paying taxes now gone.

Now imagine their children being put in camps like the days of Hilter and not being cared for and some dying.

Wait now open your eyes! What do you see?

It’s our reality today.

Juanita Beltran
Juanita Beltran
Written by
Juanita Beltran  48/F/Washington DC
(48/F/Washington DC)   
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