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A farmer is going viral for a heart-rending video about family separations at the border: 'We can't let this happen

Published by Business Insider on Fri, 22 Jun 2018


Curtis Millsap is going viral for a video where he expresses frustration and grief about President Donald Trump's immigration policies.The farmer says separating families doesn't match the Biblical messages of justice and mercy.Watch his heart-rending video below.Springfield, Missouri, farmer Curtis Millsap woke up Thursday and read the Bible, as he usually does. He read a verse about justice, but something didn't feel right."I went and woke my daughters to start our day together, and I tried to picture what it would be like for my life to be so bad that I had to leave home, seeking some sort of justice, seeking some sort of peace for my family," Millsap said. "And go [to] the border of some prosperous country that claims to believe in god, claims to believe in mercy and justice 'and arrive at the border of that country to have my kids ripped from my arms."Millsap's frustration and grief with the Trump administration's policy of separating children from their families went viral, with more than 100,000 views on Facebook and thousands of people sharing it.On Wednesday, the Trump administration changed its policy to keep families together but detain them indefinitely, and it has no plan to reunite more than 2,000 children who have already been separated from their parents.Millsap's message of frustration resonated. He asked people to do whatever they could to help."This is not who we are, it's not OK. We can't let this happen," he said.Without naming Trump, Millsap also criticized him for his strategy of "making things so bad that everyone yells out, and then back it off a little bit.""I know where that leads," Millsap said. "Nobody's fooled. We know that when we play this game, things get worse and not better. When we're thinking politically, when we have divisive arguments as lives get shattered. That is not justice, that is not mercy."Millsap fielded suggestions for how to help immigrants and refugees in the comments to his video. After it went viral, he posted the verses to Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus," which is cast onto the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty."Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,/I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" the poem reads.Millsap didn't immediately respond to INSIDER's request for comment.Sign uphereto get INSIDER's favorite stories straight to your inbox.Join the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: Four MIT graduates created a restaurant with a robotic kitchen that cooks your food in three minutes or less
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