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An Open Letter

To: Rep. Sykes, Sen. Moreno, Sen. Husted

From: A verified voter in Cuyahoga Falls, OH

May 27

I read this today, a verification on immigrants cries for help: On Saturday, Representative Kim and Representative Rob Menendez Jr. visited the Delaney Hall facility. Kim posted on social media that the detainees had accurately represented conditions there. He said he found an eighteen-year-old high school student crying and saying she just wanted to graduate; a pregnant woman without full OBGYN care; a woman who had suffered a miscarriage and had no medical care; a mother who was largely separated from her four-month-old baby, the husband of an American citizen wife and child; spoiled food; a court docket showing one judge with 74 cases to handle in one day, allowing the judge about five minutes per case; a man from South America being threatened with deportation to Congo, where there is an active Ebola outbreak; and so on. Kim concluded: “Spending tens of billions of dollars from American families to perpetrate cruelty against people who aren’t violent criminals or felons is a waste of money and wrong…. Our government should focus on helping Americans afford their lives, not lock people up in for-profit detention centers where corporations like GeoGroup and CoreCivic make billions. NO profiting off of human misery.” STOP THIS! I just want to read about sports.

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