1. United States
2. Ill.
3. Letter

I know this is only an email but I am sharing with you again a lot of concerns regarding the government and direction of our country. The rule of law appears to be dead with the current executive branch. Deporting people to other countries, using concentration camps in other countries and robbing people from due process of deportation goes against the rule of law. In this day and age, the United States is promoting concentration camps to hold the people we perceive as disloyal to the executive branch. Our biggest world allies, such as Canada and the European Union are turning their backs on us because our commander and chief continuously exposes. Canada supplies the United States with building materials and energy resources. We have ticked off Canadians who are rallying together to fight off the United States. Other nations are not going to wait for the United States to get their act together and actively work to develop trade with other nations, by passing the United States. My question to you, is what are you doing to help maintain and strengthen our relationships with our allies. We cannot be isolationists in an integrated world. Cutting governmental programs is also having a negative effect on our economy. At the basic level, it means we could care less about families and employees. We could care less about children in need. We are supposed to be a country of empathy but we have turned our back on that very concept. Government officials are now saying that it is wrong to have empathy. As an elective official, how have you shown empathy for others? My residents of Illinois are struggling each day to make ends meet. Many of our teens no longer have much hope for a future and there is an ever growing suicide rate among children and teenagers. As an elected official, you have the responsibility to keep our children and communities safe. Finally, I am both a social worker for the State of Illinois and an ordained minister. I have seen first hand at the poverty within our state. The poverty rate, however, is better than a lot of other states because Illinois invests in its people. The current administration does not seem to believe in investing in people and families but investing in corporations. People are more than just ledgers on a ledger line. We cannot run a nation like a business. People are not commodities that we can just throw away when we’re finished with them. I would like congress and the executive branch to show empathy for the people that make up this nation. The slogan “all lives matter” needs to be at the forefront of your decision making. This will not be my last message to you sharing my deep concerns with this country.