Imagine if you will: Your mother, blind and elderly, and many other relatives are struggling to stave off hunger and disease in your homeland where hundreds of thousands of others have already perished. You, your spouse and children meanwhile, live thousands of miles away in the United States, in relative affluence.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Hamoodi incarceration is an example of U.S. hypocrisy
Monday, August 20, 2012 | 2:22 p.m. CDT;
updated 3:13 p.m. CDT, Monday, August 20, 2012
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