Congress has passed President Trump’s sweeping budget bill, turning its back on our country’s most vulnerable. In these halls of power, where few trace their roots to the lands beneath their feet, descendants of immigrants now plot the deportation, detention and disappearance of the most recent generation of arrivals.

The hypocrisy is as thick as the marble lining the floors of the Capitol. To wield the gavel against those who walked paths once trod by your own ancestors is to spit on the legends told around family tables — the stories of hardship, crossing and hope. It is also, bluntly, a sin.

Make no mistake: This budget does not just “cut costs.” It kills. Speaking plainly, there will be children who go hungry, men and women who die for want of Medicaid. There will be elders whose final days are spent in needless........

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