This is your 2017 America

Later, in her journal, Fox would write, “In the still sane recesses of my mind I felt myself blind with rage that a young man could speak so arrogantly and impolitely to an old woman. I felt myself spinning. My brain was closing. I held on tightly to my Australian resilience in what seemed to me had become a police-state, in which I was undergoing unfair and unfounded interrogation.”

AN AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN’S-BOOK AUTHOR’S U.S. CUSTOMS ORDEAL

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