Patricia Okoumou's bravery in the face of this barbarous, autocratic, proto-fascist trump/pence regime to stand up for asylum-seeking children and families driven from their home countries by warlords and drug gangs (who are propped up by the illegal drug marketplace here in the USA and are armed with guns manufactured in and sold to them from USA) is a powerful testament to the need for US citizens to hold our government and elected officials to account for their unconstitutional and immoral actions. Our government, at the direction of donald j. trump and kirstjen nielsen, has been kidnapping children and losing them in its bureaucracy for years. It is also creation horrific environments in detention facilities in which children are being beaten, psychologically tortured, and raped BY AGENTS OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. It is no surprise that many sheep-like native born Americans choose to pull the wool over their eyes and avoid facing the hideous cruelty being committed IN THEIR NAMES against people indigenous to this hemisphere. Perhaps that is why we need Patricia Okoumou the most: to force us to open our eyes to what the United States of America has become, and what it will become unless we put a stop to the sadistic excesses of this trump/pence regime.