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Two Wrongs Don't Make it Right

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This has been one of the toughest weeks I have had when it comes to staying current with the news. I literally hurt inside. Last Tuesday, I read that children were being separated, forcefully at times, from parents who had come into the country without documentation. As I researched the situation, I learned that children were being put into facilities with minimum comforts, their parents were not allowed to contact them or even know where their children were. At that time, I said I would not be silent.  As I have researched, I have had to wade through misinformation on both sides to the issues. Honestly, it is difficult to know who to believe.  One thing I know, because the administration has admitted doing it, is that children ARE being separated from their parents as a "deterrent" to continuing into the US.  I am disturbed that some people feel that because this or that happened in the past or the fact that the parents are without documents, this somehow justi...