I would like to respond to a letter in the Santa Maria Times titled, “Democrats and hypocrisy,” (July 20).
A part-time janitor who worked at a processing center for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Why, Arizona, discovered plastic rosary beads and Bibles in the trash, personal items confiscated from people who supposedly entered the United States illegally, deemed by border patrol agents to be “non-essential” or “potentially lethal.”
Islamic terrorists incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay get to read the Koran, are given rugs so they can pray five times a day, get to sleep on a bed with a mattress and wool blankets, get three meals a day, not to mention playing soccer outside of their prison cells, all at taxpayers’ expense. Yet Roman Catholic children, to include infants, are thrown in cages, not allowed to have plastic rosaries or other religious artifacts, not to mention a Bible, sleep on mats with aluminum foil blankets, and can never go outside to see the light of day because they came to America to seek a better life?
These same conservatives who claim Christians are being persecuted overseas don’t have a problem treating Islamic terrorists better than Catholic babies inside immigration detention centers throughout the United States?
Pot, meet kettle.
Instead of creating an alibi about adopting children from Socialist Russia in order to meet with Vladimir Putin’s henchmen about hacking the Democratic National Committee headquarters and passing the information to Wikileaks, why doesn’t Trump talk to his Republican colleagues about adopting Christian children from Democratic countries in Central America?
I’m old enough to remember when the GOP was pro-FBI, pro-morality, and anti-deficits. Trump is leading Republicans to fiscal, intellectual, and moral perdition. There is no longer a conservative party in America. There is only a cult of Trump.
This article appears in Aug 2-9, 2018.