http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/24/1424417/-5-Year-Old-Hands-Note-To-Pope-Francis-Let-Her-Come-To-Me?detail=email
This beautiful image says it all, yes? Well, not quite all. This 5-year old little girl named Sophia Cruz, somehow made it through the barricades in Washington DC, as Pope Francis was going by. An officer was taking her back into the crowd when Pope Francis reached out to the little girl and told security, "Let her come to me." An agent lifted the little girl up to the Pope and she handed him a note that tells more of the story:
"I want to tell you that my heart is sad about the discrimination of the immigrants in this country."
"[Immigrants] are good people, they work hard in the fields...like my dad, who I barely get to see. I ask that they stop deporting our parents because we need them to grow and be happy."
"I have hope that this pain will come to peace."
Sophia Cruz has the fears many immigrant children and families have, always wondering if they or someone in their family will be deported. There is no doubt young children are hearing the hateful, anti-Hispanic rhetoric spewed in the media by presidential candidates like Donald Trump. And there is no doubt these children are also hearing from bullies at school, who learn from their racist parents, who listen to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and Hate media. Children from both sides hear, "Send them all back," and "We'll build a massive wall!" How would that not strike fear in an undocumented adult much less a small child.
this is what the Pres. is fighting for real family values not those that morphed from "VALUES" to "PRINCIPLES" a much more expression of what we want not values we hold and cherish. it also is what the prejudice and racial bigotry that the republicans are fighting to maintain this is not reaching out of caring it's reaching out to grab around the throat and deport family or not where is the values in that???????????
i know this is out of context but i think of "an a little child shall lead them" literally not quoting the verse as a parable.
