When Deportation Is a Death Sentence

New Yorker

My family had extensive contacts in Mexico and Honduras. But knew nothing of what was going on there. They were only interested in what was going on in their little RLDS church - that had no interest in, or an understanding of, the world it was in. For them, their church was everything - and the rest of the world was nothing.

The same could be said of Americans in general - they have no interest in their world, or what goes on there. And they elected a President who is the same way - only interested in himself. And not in the thousands of immigrants who will die, when they are forced to return to their countries.

They have one cardinal rule - the don't want to know about it. And it can be nearly anything.

This ignorance protects them from the horrible world. But also makes the world even more horrible. This result, they think - is none of their business, none of their responsibility.