For the sin we have sinned against You and against humanity for allowing the perversion of justice on our southern border, many of the refugees, as our ancestors were refugees:
For allowing children to be separated from their parents,
in our name
For allowing small children to appear in court on their own,
in our name
For allowing officials to cram people into cages, without any thought to sanitation or hygiene,
in our name
For not giving girls sanitary napkins for their periods,
in our name
For allowing rape and sexual assault on young women and girls in our custody,
In our name
For denying them flu shots and thereby watching children die of a treatable infection,
in our name
For denying refugees and immigrants vaccines, and thereby spreading mumps through camps throughout the country,
in our name
For calling refugees escaping horror at home, horrors that our people have experienced through time immemorial, criminals,
in our name
For traumatizing thousands of refugee children,
in our name
For not pouring into the streets to protest these atrocities perpetrated
in our name
Forgive us, pardon us, wipe away our sin, Holy One of Forgiveness, but only after we have made this right.
Meredith Cahn, 2019/5780
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