I sit, holding back my tears, and listen to tales of sorrow: a woman’s husband dragged her with his car as her young son looked on, a man was kept as a slave (turning in his wages and his dignity to his wife, who forced him to sleep in a tiny room), a child was beaten - and forced to watch her mother beaten - on a daily basis. Citizens and Legal Permanent Residents come into my office and tell me horrifying stories of abuse. Men, women, and children who have sought American opportunities and witnessed their American Dreams tarnished by the abuse of U.S. Their faces relive the abuse they have suffered as they tell me their stories. – from The Holy Bible, James 1:27 (New International Version) Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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