In reference to the Gazette’s informative story about an immigrant mother sheltered at the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence, (“Safe in sanctuary, but no end in sight,” May 19-20), last week the president referred to such people in sanctuary cities like ours as “animals.”
Having recently volunteered to accompany Irida Kakhtiranova overnight (in case ICE raided and removed her for deportation), I want our national leader to know firsthand how terribly evil she is. Why, she has confessed that she holds back tears each Sunday evening when her three young children leave after a weekend’s stay.
What’s more, even when suffering from intermittent migraines, keeping her up all night, she prepares dinners for them. And listen to this, her pre-school girls have bedtime stories read to them, while her 10-year-old son enjoys pingpong. And think of the gall to come to America for a better life than being persecuted for loving a person of her own gender.
So, sir, I ask you, how much longer can we tolerate this unAmerican hope, so foreign to our own ancestors, all of whom came in the ever-so-light spirit of sheer whimsy, to see what the fuss is all about the newly conquered continent? By all means we must purge our nation from these inhuman sorts, as you say, who undermine our cherished values.
With an executive order, before it is too late, you must close those insidious, so-called houses of worship harboring these nation-destroying beasts. Then punish those traitorous cities, before they infect the rest.
Remember, for the horrible monsters they are, we have a righteous duty to remove them as swiftly as possible.
Rev. Peter Kakos
Northampton