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Iowa City pastor deserved to stay
Rich Hillyer
Mar. 22, 2015 11:10 pm, Updated: Mar. 23, 2015 10:18 am
To the editor:
Regarding the deportation of Max Villatoro, the Mennonite minister, really?
After he's turned his life around from the transgressions of 16 years ago, married, fathered four children and become a man of the Lord, the powers that be still won't grant him leniency. Really?
Forty thousand plus people disagree and apparently that doesn't make a difference. Really?
What kind of country am I living in? It's starting to look like Nazi Germany here more and more everyday. People downright hate each other and the results are never good.
Those who can't remember history, are condemned to repeat it.
Rich Hillyer
Cedar Rapids
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