Never more. I am a German immigrant who has lived in the United States for almost 40 years. I am shocked and dismayed to see what has become of my adopted homeland.
My German parents lived through the Nazi era. When in the 1930s, my parent’s neighbors were hauled away in the middle of the night by the Gestapo, they said nothing. When the synagogue in my hometown, Wilhelmshaven, was destroyed, they did nothing. When the concentration camp in Bergen Belsen opened two satellite camps in Wilhelmshaven, they said nothing.
The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol is holding refugees and immigrants in so-called detention centers in such inhumane conditions that it would be deemed illegal to hold livestock.
In Carrizzo Springs, Texas, the CBP wants to concentrate over 1,000 children at an abandoned oil worker camp. Already we know of at least six children who have died in CBP custody.
What has happened to the moral compass of this nation? Remember that the six million death toll of the Nazis started with the first six humans who died from inhumane conditions in the prison camps that were the precursors to the death camps. Never more.
Hans Leo
Northampton