Friends:
I listened to President Zelensky's speech and found it to be powerful and hopeful. Putin has no limits, destroying Ukraine's infrastructure and using the harsh, cold winter as a weapon of war. I fantasized that our country could similarly show a parallel level of compassion and statesmanship for our own humanitarian crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border where many migrants and refugees find themselves at this very moment in freezing temperatures and without food, shelter, or legal representation. Regardless of increased enforcement of the U.S.-Mexico border, desperation will keep migrants coming.
Congressman Joaquin Castro has been calling for a Central American Marshall Plan without which nothing will change. I couldn't agree more. In the meantime, I ask you to join me in a birthday fundraiser for migrants and refugees crossing the U.S.-Mexico border who need many things, including legal representation.
-Angela Valenzuela
Ukraine: Zelensky looks to win a war of symbols
By visiting Washington, the Ukranian president wanted to thank the United States. He will probably be eager to pay the same tribute to his European allies.
Dec. 22, 2022 | Le Monde
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a Ukrainian national flag to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as US Vice President Kamala Harris looks on during his address to the US Congress in Washington, DC on December 21, 2022.
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