Duty Of The POTUS

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Let me start with a sort of disclaimer: I have no significant pull or push toward you. I find myself to be neither a liberal nor a conservative. I seek, like yourself, to be a servant of the American people.

However (Yes, there is a however), I feel as though you forget that the duty of the POTUS is exactly that: to serve the American people at large, not the few that agree with your point of view. There are times where I feel that you have neglected this responsibility, one which you swore to serve on January twentieth. There are other times that I feel you have followed this obligation to the letter. This is not the reason for which I write you, though. I do not intend to tell you how to do your job, nor do I intend to sway you from your
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However, not all terrorists are Muslims, nor are all Muslims terrorists. I have many friends that practice the Islam faith, and they are some of the most kind, considerate, amazing people I know. You treat Latin Americans (specifically Mexican Americans) like property, just as our forefathers treated the African slaves. I am of Argentine heritage, and I do not approve. America was founded on the principle of accepting people of all ancestries, and to build a wall to divide the people of your country from their home is like building a wall to keep you out of New York, and to keep New Yorkers away from you.

The Declaration of Independence, the founding document of this nation that YOU lead, states that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” You cannot expect to mistreat your fellow Americans AND call yourself the president of a country that is founded on this principle.

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and all the other great presidents of this great nation lived and died by the Declaration and the Constitution, the two great laws of the

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