President Trump said in a tweet Monday night that U.S. immigration agents are planning to make mass arrests starting “next week,” an apparent reference to a plan in preparation for months that aims to round up thousands of migrant parents and children in a blitz operation across major U.S. cities.
“Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States,” Trump wrote, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “They will be removed as fast as they come in.”
As soon as I saw that story, the "millions of aliens', the mass immigration raids, I immediately flashed over to the supposed foreigners, Polish Jews in Germany, or non French Jews in Paris and elsewhere in France, to Rohingya, to Tutsi and the sad fact of the matter is that we can continue to list more and more, for apparently we have learned nothing! Nothing!! If this madman, this hater of humanity and his just as guilty aides and personnel who agree to do this, to rip families out of homes, to separate families, to inevitably make grievious errors as to whom is 'illegal' or not, if this evil man goes through with it, then it is incumbent upon every single decent human being to stand in protest, to raise the roof, to lock arms, to demand that this stop! Now!! Even before it is planned for the start of it next week.
The hate that emanates from this man is contagious and invasive. Teens are empowered, they think, to spew hatred on the various websites and media posting sites. Two years later they regret it but the damage is done for nothing disappears and youthful indiscretions remain to haunt their lives forever. But this man, nothing seems to bother him, finding 'nice' people in the ranks of the haters, instigating a hatred of the 'other' that has been the downfall of mankind, for unless we realize we are all in this together, we are doomed to fall separately.
And what happens when all these migrants and immigrants are rounded up like cattle, shoved into trucks, boxcars, marched off to places of incarceration, left hungry, cold, children neglected and dying, important jobs in the economy left unfilled, crops going unpicked, roofing jobs left undone, small businesses crippled for lack of patrons? What happens? You see, all are interlinked and even if one cannot see clearly that this is a crisis of humanity, then look at it with cold hard eyes of economic consequences, add to that the tariffs which arise from the same dark and stinking well of hatred, and realize where we will be and just exactly what we are doing.
Finally, when all are rounded up will that be the end? NO, never, for hatred eats up all in its path. There always will need to be a group suitable for scapegoating and so who will be next? Take your choice? Take two. The more the merrier?!
We, the people of this country, have allowed this to happen. We have stood by and let this man perpetrate one bizarre act after another and begin to dismember our framework as a democracy. We have allowed prejudice to become okay, even cheered. We have allowed this man to corrupt the government so much that it works as his personal corps of servants rather than serving the people. The Republican party has lost its soul and the Democratic Party dithers the days away. We have become enured to nastiness, to outrage, to idiocy, to lies to such a degree that one thing surpasses the next and we yawn and go on as if nothing has changed.
Well, it has changed, drastically and I wait and wait for people to wake up. Those who say he is "the best thing for Israel' well, wake up. Israel is not invited to the Bahrain conference so what, another attempt to impose a "deal" on Israel, to usurp its rights as a country just like any other country? The answer - yes, for Trump et al could care less about Israel other than how it best serves his needs, his wishes, his desires. As for the rest - go to hell is his motto.
This man who says openly that he "runs the country", that he believes all want him to add two more years onto his term in office and then serve another term and then - Ruler for Life, this man is that existential threat to us as a country, a clear pathway to disaster upon the face of this world.
People, he lies, he swears, he lies some more, makes up stories, is sending pictures through to support his determination to wage a horrible war on Iran with nuclear shadows growing larger and more ominous by the hour and who can believe his pictures, the "proof" of a liar and his abetters?
Time to protest in force. Jokes by late nite TV hosts are not enough. He truly is not a lauging matter, as ignorant, moronic, nasty, dangerous, threatening, insane are more likely adjectives. We must demand that this plan for next week be aborted and remember - who is next?
Do not think that we will be only sending the black and brown people away for understand that among those multitudes will be 'white' people as well from so many different countries. There are no hard and fast rules in situations like this, only the promise of danger, of death, of growth of an active hatred, and a fright that should permeate your very being. Dear Lord, we need help.
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