Lent 10: Where is Accountability?


 

 

Not only does ICE mistreat and deny medical care to its detainees in GEO run facilities, but it literally dumps people who cannot care for themselves on frozen city streets to let them die.  In orange booties from an ICE detention center, Nuri Amin Alam, a blind refugee from Myanmar (Burma) was transported and left on a Buffalo street in freezing weather miles from his home without adequate clothing for the weather. 

 

His death is the result of the deliberate lack of care by ICE agents who picked him up on February 19 after his family posted bail, drove him to Buffalo and left him on the city street to die. ICE did not answer the family questions regarding his whereabouts. The word for this action is murder. 

 

This goes along with reports that DHS agents allowed Jeffery Epstein to import his victims to and from his island “as a favor.”  As a favor?  The idea that our esteemed protectors of the border from women and the children seeking refuge to allowed this pedophile (that’s a polite word) to import young girls from all over to be abused is beyond outrageous. It’s criminal, just like the death of Alam, and they should be held accountable and punished..

 

Prayer for the Day

 

Crying aloud to you, O God, asking what is wrong with us,

   Leaving the helpless to die without any care?

Angered by reports, O Lord, of government corruption,

   Enabling sexual abuse, we ask where is justice?

Hold us to the promises of accountability and justice,

   So such sins do not blot us with blood.

In the name of the One who calls us to do justice

   Even Crist Jesus our Lord, Amen.

 

Thoughts for the Day

 

He cannot use a phone. He doesn’t know his address, he doesn’t know phone numbers, he can’t communicate, he can’t see. And they just left him.

            Benjamin Macaluso, family attorney

 

Federal investigators examined Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer who worked at the St Thomas airport to which Epstein regularly flew on his private planes before traveling by boat or helicopter to his private island, newly released documents reveal.

            The Guardian, February 26, 2026

 

For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept still and restrained myself;

   Now I will cry out like a woman in labor, I will gasp and pant.

I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up their herbage;

   I will dry rivers into islands and dry up their pools.

I will lead the blind by a road they do not know,

   By paths they have not known I will guide them.

I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground.

   These are the things I will do, and ai will not forsake them.

They shall be turned back and utterly put to shame – those who trust in carved images,

   Who say to cast image, “You are our gods.”

            Isaiah 42: 14-17