When I was little, my father told me stories of his childhood. We village people were banned from moving to the city. If one traveled to the city without a pass, she/he would be sent to jail.
When …
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When I was little, my father told me stories of his childhood. We village people were banned from moving to the city. If one traveled to the city without a pass, she/he would be sent to jail.
When I was in college, a college senior student was sent to a detention center and beaten to death because he didn't have his ID with him so he couldn't prove that he was legally staying in another city, for a job interview, not for crime.
I heard how soldiers used to shoot people trying to cross the water between Hong Kong and mainland China. I also read that people who had successfully crossed the river between North Korea and China were deported and persecuted.
So cruel. Humans against humans. All they need is an excuse: illegal.
Naïve, some of you would argue. This time these asylum seekers coming to the United States are different.
No. It's the same. Same Shame.
And same cure: Change the wicked law and be human, be kind. Be humankind.
Hailian Zhou
Port Townsend
