PAID ADVERTISEMENT Sens. Collins and King, Reps. Pingree and Poliquin: Impeach Criminal Abusers of Refugees--or Go! This letter was published in the Portland Press-Herald online edition April 26th Susan Collins' moderation has always been a rare thing, never approaching that of Eisenhower and Nixon. There is nothing moderate about consistent support of Israel's racist dispossession, repression, humiliations, and slaughter of Palestinians, nor her blessing of the racist Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions to be Attorney General, nor support of a tax cut that gives the greedy billions and only an illusory cut to victims of our extreme economic inequality, nor her apparent readiness to approve a SCOTUS nominee who would put the President above the law and further grease the way for corporate greed. Worse yet, Collins is now apparently determined to give a pass to Republican officials responsible for separating thousands of children, including infants, from their parents - as Sessions declares, to lesson adults on coming here unwanted by illegally blocking rightful refugee entry, criminalizing the desperate who still come, and, abetted by Kirsten Nielsen, taking thousands of children from their parents without any concern for their reunion. This deliberate and callous - inhuman - policy, certain to do lifelong psychological damage to dozens of its innocent victims and occasioning suffering for thousands over weeks and months of separation, c Collins' and Maine's entire Congressional delegation's appropriate action. It calls for impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump Michael Pence, Sessions, and Nielsen, nothing less. We should demand it. Any who do not join in that accounting should be retired at the earliest opportunity: if this travesty is not an egregious breach of the Constitution's command to serve "the general welfare, nothing is William H. Slavick Prof. Slavick, a Catholic peace andsocial justice advocate, was a U.S. Senate candidate in 2006, author ofover 200 Church World articles, and. for 23 years coordinator of Pax Christi Maine. PAID FOR BY BILL SLAVICK (207) 773-656.2