The media refuses to report on what is taking place in this country. Police and Immigration task forces are storming businesses and public areas and arresting anyone who is considered an illegal immigrant.

I am not arguing that these people are not here illegally. What I argue is that they are being treated inhumanly. Most of these people are just like you. Most speak English, they have a family and they work hard to support the family they love. They are here for a better opportunity.

They are here because the government has allowed them to migrate here. Now that they are here, in one quick swift blow, they are being singled out, arrested and treated like criminals. They are doing what all of us are doing, living in the pursuit of happiness. Isn’t that the American dream? They did nothing wrong.

The same thing happened in Nazi Germany, but no one sees that.

In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me —
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

-Pastor Martin Niemöller