Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has just gotten the resignation letter to beat all resignation letters.
This letter comes from Elizabeth Holtzman, a Democrat who helped write the Refugee Act. She was also serving on the bipartisan Homeland Security Advisory Council, which includes a committee that is against for-profit immigration detention facilities — until now, that is.
Holtzman has just joined four of her fellow council members in resigning from the Trump administration in light of its inhumane immigration policies. Her resignation letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen letter is one of the best things you’ll read today.
In the letter, Holtzman writes, “There was a time that the U.S. welcomed refugees,” reminding the Trump administration that they are taking America backward. She also wrote about how the Refugee Act was created due to America’s failure to properly welcome those who were fleeing the Holocaust. She even cited the hundreds of thousands of immigrants America has welcomed from different areas of the world. She reminded Trump and his minions that the new policies are immoral and a direct violation of the Refugee Act:
Considering that history, the thought that the U.S. government is afraid today of 2,000 children and their parents is both laughable and appalling.”
Then, she made this blistering remark to Nielsen (but it was certainly meant for Trump as well). She wrote:
Although it is I who am resigning in protest against these policies, it is you who should be tendering your resignation instead.”
Most of us could not agree more. You can read her full resignation below, which is sure to embarrass everyone in the Trump administration beyond belief:
This resignation letter from a Department of Homeland Security employee to @SecNielsen is absolutely incredible: pic.twitter.com/CTb8bJKnnm
— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) July 23, 2018
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