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The outcome was as feared: Roberto was deported to Juárez and the family lost the restaurant. The news cycle moved on. But it’s hard for me to move beyond that singular moment at the restaurant as I prepared to leave, looking into Dimitri’s eyes and trying to think of something to tell him besides “You’ll get your father back” or “Everything will be okay,” which I could not say because I doubted it was true. Here was a kid—a very American kid—who wanted the most natural thing in the world: the company of his own father. And because of politics, he couldn’t have it. A law said that he and his ...more
Karen
Treating people as commodities, or things, instead of recognizing our common humanity.
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
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