The other

 When a group of people is separated out because they look a certain way or speak differently, and they are treated as if they had no rights I would hope to be connected with those who protect them. Instead I find myself living in the country that is committing the act of separation and cruelty towards an entire group based on slight differences. My country has made the value of life be based on how we look and where our family is from, instead of being based on the life we have lived and what we have done in the world.
We have been a nation of immigrants since the day Europeans landed on these shores and began marking the lands lived on by the natives as their own. We have gone through times when we destroyed societies because they lived on this land before us, or we kept the other chained to do all the work because they looked different. Even in modern times we put any person that had a past relation from Japan into concentration camps, removing all their rights because they looked like those we called an enemy. Now we are going further with our fellow Americans who's past relations are from any country below our southern borders. 
We are all here with a hope and dream of having enough money to live in a nice house, have good and healthy food, and be able to spend leisure time doing what we enjoy. We are all just people trying to live our best life. Still we have accepted the placement of an assumed other less worthy group of people into concentration camps and jails without reason beyond their looking and sometimes speaking a little different.
Eventually we as a country will have to face our neighbors and accept the wrongs we have committed against the people of our own country. We will be forced by time and human experience to apologize for the wrongs we are committing right now. Even I am failing those people that are being held against their will for juvenile reasoning. We must each look into the eyes of our country's people knowing what we have done to them through acceptance to allow their suffering. 
No one and no group of others stands in the way of our greatness as a whole or individually. When you want to see why you are where you are in the world, you must look in the mirror and see yourself through all your time on the earth. Your past choices have laid the groundwork and the cornerstone for the life you are living today. The truth is in our face and still we point at someone else. Good luck.
Love,
PEACE

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