Dear Mr. President:

The children who are coming into our country are seeking asylum in the same way that any person from another country who is fleeing persecution, rape, starvation, death flees from those specters. They are refugees rather than migrants, I think that we of all nations should understand this and treat them accordingly.

I was disturbed by the heartlessness of the article I read in the New York Times this morning. The article said that you were "lifting the lamp besides the golden door",  requesting some $4,000,000,000.00 from Congress to help deal with the huddled masses of children yearning to breathe free who are seeking asylum in The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave.

Way to go! I thought.

Then I saw that over half of the $4,000,000,000.00 was going to "beef up" our security, and to protect our "Way Of Life" from these children. We need to get more border patrol agents, judges, aerial surveillance, and new detention facilities. And this of course means lots and lots of construction contracts, and hardware orders of all kinds and shapes, from mallets for the Judges to "aerial surveillance drones", uniforms, Humvees, and machine guns for the "border patrol."

So we can see where that 2+ billion is going.

But the most heartless thing was that all of these billions are being spent so we can be sure we are protecting due process as we "remove these migrants more efficiently."

Well, not one of better democratic gestures. However, I think that the children are really refuges seeking asylum rather than migrants. And I do hope that some group somewhere launches a lawsuit to pursue that. I think it is a no brainer.

I Know that this one gave you a super heartache as well as a the usual headache that goes with the toughest job on the planet..

-lots of love

-tom