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Where are the Amber Alerts for Children at the Border?

A Hymn for Those Separated, Frightened, and Alone

By Carolyn Winfrey Gillette
Image via REUTERS/Loren Elliott
Jul 27, 2018
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Down at the border, Amber Alert:
Children are taken, children are hurt.
Lord, this injustice must make you weep:
Why can’t their mothers sing them to sleep?

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