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Closed Doors

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Associated Press photo from Portland Press Herald  - children at Brownsville facility I am struck numb by the response of so many of my neighbors in Collin County to the crisis of children trying to flee to the United States. The reasons given for not extending a helping hand center around fear - fear of giving to someone else instead of our own children, fear of disease, fear of the unknown. I find it ironic that we are afraid when the situations that these children are running from instill fear beyond our imaginings. The very foundation of this country is based upon a pride in offering a safe haven to the oppressed. Why would we go out of our way to create a policy pre-emptively prohibiting a county from ever offering support to any group of people? Such a restriction flies in the face of freedoms we so value. How can we scream, ‘no, no, no!’ when we do not know what we might be asked to do, if anything? We have not been asked in our county to house anyone. We have not