The US is just as eager to chuck out anyone they can get away with, as well as denying asylum to those who are in dire need. Some of the stories that flit by on news feeds, ya just don't know if you should be crying or fuming, but usually it's both.

A particularly horrifying case was the woman with a young child who were put into detention, separately, in far different parts of the country, though twice being judged worthy of asylum. 7 year old daughter, torn from her mother for no legitimate reason, was put up as an example to warn foreigners that coming here wasn't going to improve their lives any.

A man was JUST granted citizenship after over a decade's time of being exiled to Mexico, a place he came from as a small child. He enlisted in the army, served well enough for an honorable discharge, with citations and honors. PTSD from combat took him to some sad places, so deporting him as a unwanted immigrant rather than the promised citizenship was thought necessary. What did he do in the land foreign to him? Started a resource center for other American Veterans deported to Mexico!

Worthy, hardworking, pillars-of-their-community folks are being given the boot more than ever, and should the community be any version of hyphenate- American, they're top of the list. The excesses of this administration are merely illuminating a process that is inherently xenophobic; such an irony for a country BASED on immigration and fleeing oppression.

Joanne in Cleveland ( trying to remember where my passport is)