Once again, we look to history.
In June 1939, the German ocean liner St. Louis sailed into the port of Miami with 937 almost entirely Jewish passengers.
They, like today's South American asylum seekers at our Southern border, were fleeing violence. Adolf Hitler was ratcheting up his measures against Jews, and these men, women, and children had managed to escape, hoping to find asylum in the "land of the free." They could have sailed just about anywhere outside Europe.
They chose here.
And we turned them around.
More than a quarter subsequently died in the Holocaust.
There is indeed a crisis at our Southern border with Mexico.
But it does not entail "caravans of illegals" bringing "drugs, crime, and terrorists."
It's how we are choosing to address the thousands of victims of crime, oppression, torture, and malice with exactly the same conditions from which they assumed we could rescue them.
Is this still the "land of the free and the home of the brave"?
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