Meanwhile, you're hoping your daughter survives the night.
What people, thousands of miles away, are saying about what other people are saying is not on your mind.
If someone told you what the president of the United States said -- and if you could, by some miracle, sit across from this president, you would say: "Sir, you called my country a shithole. It is really a beautiful place. It was. But you're right. It's turned into a shithole. Can you help us do something about that? Perhaps I see a glint of light, because finally a powerful leader used an accurate word to describe what has happened to us. You used a word that cut through many fairy tales. So, can you help us reclaim the land that was once ours? Forget about building roads and airports and hospitals and office buildings and malls. We just need our land back, and then we'll figure out what we need to do ourselves."
That would be a strange moment.
Perhaps an embarrassing moment.
-- Regardless of whether Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George [H.W.] Bush, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt, or any of his predecessors were sitting across from you.
You're not a terrorist.
You aren't trying to emigrate.
You aren't a refugee who refuses to assimilate, who feels entitled to abuse his wife in any way he wants to, for any reason.
You're not a member of the vicious MS-13 gang.
You're not involved in child sex trafficking.
You're not making anchor babies.
You're not a pirate, a kidnapper, a street thug, or a drug dealer.
You represent a FAR larger population than all the above categories put together.
You're one of the millions and millions of people who simply live out their lives where they are.
You want your land back.
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