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Adriana Sanchez, left, wipes a tear from her face as she is comforted by her mother, Rosalina De La Rosa, following a protest to end forced separation of children from their parents at the border in downtown Waco, Texas, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. (Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune-Herald via AP)
Kids hold up signs during an immigration family separation protest in front of the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. District Court building, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Phoenix. An unapologetic President Donald Trump defended his administration's border-protection policies Monday in the face of rising national outrage over the forced separation of migrant children from their parents. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Children listen to speakers during an immigration family separation protest in front of the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. District Court building, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Phoenix. An unapologetic President Donald Trump defended his administration's border-protection policies Monday in the face of rising national outrage over the forced separation of migrant children from their parents. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Protesters chant as they march during an immigration family separation protest in front of the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. District Court building, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Phoenix. An unapologetic President Donald Trump defended his administration's border-protection policies Monday in the face of rising national outrage over the forced separation of migrant children from their parents. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
A man waiting to gain access to the United States waits at Casa de Migrante, Tuesday, June 19, 2018, in Reynosa, Mexico.   President Donald Trump is planning to meet with House Republicans Tuesday to discuss legislation, even as lawmakers in both parties complain about the administration's
Hilla Holappa, 1, reaches up to her mother Erika Holappa, of Washington, during a protest of the separation of immigrant families, at the start of at joint House Committee on the Judiciary and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing examining the Inspector Generals' report of the FBI's Clinton email probe, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 19, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Lucy Martin and her daughter Branwen Espinal together with other mothers and their babies, attend a House Committee on the Judiciary and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, to express their support and sympathy to immigrants and their families and objection to the forced separation of migrant children from their parents, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
UNITED STATES - June 19: A group of mothers and their children protesting the separation of families at the southern border are escorted out of the

Le foto dell’agenzia Ap non possono riportare il pianto dei bambini strappati ai loro genitori,  “immigrati illegali” negli Stati Uniti d’America. Il magnate di  New York che si trova nella Casa Bianca proviene dal mondo degli affari immobiliari e dell’azzardo. Comprende che, se oltrepassa il limite morale senza nessuno in grado di fermarlo, con gli strumenti della applicazione formale della legge, avrà carta bianca in una società desensibilizzata davanti al dolore altrui.Valanghe di libri descrivono questo meccanismo che si replica nei luoghi del disumano, ma probabilmente Trump si vanterà di non averli letti.

Qualcuno avrà letto, invece, le opere di un figlio di quel grande Paese, David Thoreau, autore di quel saggio sulla “Disobbedienza civile” che ha inciso nella coscienza di molti. Come Martin Luther King. Principi elementari come questo:

«Un uomo saggio non lascia il giusto alla mercé del caso né desidera che esso si affermi attraverso il potere della maggioranza».

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