After witnessing four years of a presidential administration that heightened racial tensions, created a policy to separate children from their parents, and banned Muslims from traveling to the country, all while amassing a cult following that led to hundreds of white men storming the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, under the guise of having been disenfranchised, I saw too many parallels to the world of York. York was in prison for life, but the kind of desperation he fed on for decades remained. Many who agreed with Donald Trump’s staunch stance against immigration argued that parents deserved
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