Mary Schmich: Mom, why did they put the kids in cages? One day adults will have to explain the shame
by Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune
Jun 19, 2018
3 minutes
Children in cages.
One day as a nation we'll look back in shame at our current immigration fiasco, the way we look back in shame at slavery, the slaughter of Native Americans, the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
One day adults will try to explain it to children and there will be no defense that makes moral sense.
Mom, why did they put children in cages?
Because many people were afraid, child. Because they were afraid of all the people - all the poor people
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