Can’t recognize my country

I don’t recognize this country anymore. The “president” is tearing children from their parents at our southern border, bad-mouthing our allies, befriending dictators with no respect for due process - even stating that he admires them - and having his staff cherry-pick Bible verses to justify these brutal policies to the press. I could go on and on.

I condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the cruel and inhumane treatment foreign-born children are being subjected to at our southern border. As a pediatrician, it is inconceivable to me that the country of my birth, the one that used to be the “Leader of the Free World,” the one that people on the outside used to look up to as a beacon of liberty, the one that said, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free …” is now imprisoning preschool-age children and babies in shelled-out Wal-Marts and old warehouses in Texas. Welcome to Nazi America, my fellow countrymen.

The “president” blames the Democrats, sort of like how an abusive husband blames his imperfect wife as he beats her and the children, exclaiming, “This is all your fault.”

I don’t recognize this country anymore.

Chris Anderson

Spokane