“We are from Guatemala, we are on our way to the United States, my friend, myself and my 5-year-old daughter. I am 24 years old and a widow. My husband was killed when my little girl was only 2 years old because he worked for the Guatemalan police. After that, I went to live with my mother and when she died I worked as a maid in the house of some elderly Spanish gentlemen, where my daughter and I lived, until their death, recently. Not having a place to live or a job, my friend told me “let’s go to the United States”, I was afraid because we have no papers and no money. But she told me she would support me.
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Justice and Order
The ordinary person, the one who is not an expert and has not studied the “sacred texts” of law believes that the essence of the law is justice. Concept that seems self-evident.
Of course, people know that there can be problems. Corrupt judges or politicians can use the law to commit injustice, and use their power for sleazy self-interest. But this only indicates a disease, a pathology of the system.
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