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Deborah Schmidt

Retired teacher

Deborah Schmidt, a 15-year resident of San Antonio, is a retired English teacher, wife of a retired Air Force officer, mother of a daughter who is a twice-deployed active duty Army officer and a life-long Democrat. In her spare time she reads, cooks and travels to see her children and grandchildren scattered across the country.

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Ethical responsibility and pride in America

The mission of the Grannies was to travel to McAllen to shed light on the immigrant atrocities our current administration has created at the border. When children are caged in detention facilities that resemble concentration camps, when children are neglected and abused in these facilities, when their desperate parents are treated as criminals, in my book these are atrocities.