It is hard to read things like this and not suspect that America has lost its soul.
This guy was in the US for 16 years, got married had kids, but then got swept up in an immigration sweep. He languishes in jail for months, complaining of back pain, before dying of cancer that had gone untreated for months.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/nyregion/13detain.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=login&pagewanted=all
Are we still a good country? Can we blame all the craziness on the Bushies, or do we, as I suspect, have a lot to answer for as citizens who are too busy playing with our new Iphones to bother rioting in the streets?
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