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“Que sus días cambien pronto y que el amor que sus padres y familiares sienten por ustedes brille fuerte dentro de ustedes y les de fuerza.”
“That your days may soon change, that the love your parents and relatives feel for you glow inside you to give you strength.”
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The story of the Central American refugees is so essentially American that it’s a wonder we can’t recognize how much they belong here.
Throughout history, the biblical story of Exodus has inspired people around the world fleeing persecution.
I want us to go humbly to the very people our culture tried to exterminate to listen to what they can teach us.
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