September 16, 2019
The USA is vast and its overall population density sparse (contrast with Asia, Africa, India, Europe, etc). These observations lead me to this rumination on our immigration policy.
"The system is full," Donald J. Trump shouted into an array of high-tech microphones in April of 2019, his rhetoric ascending new heights in volume if not logic. "We can’t take you anymore. Whether it’s asylum, whether it’s anything you want, it’s illegal migration, we can’t take you anymore. Our country is full, our area’s full, the sector is full. We can’t take you anymore, I’m sorry, can’t happen. So turn around, that’s the way it is."
Trump is a racist, xenophobic white supremacist. From his Trump Tower gold-escalator descent (when he searingly broad-brushed Mexican immigrants as drug dealers and rapists), to his most recent attempt to redefine amnesty (to exclude Central American immigrants who failed first to seek asylum in Mexico) to his pointedly bigoted and wantonly abusive treatment of brown-skinned children is clear: Trump is a hater.
Trump much prefers white-skinned Norwegians to Mexicans, Muslims or black-skinned people from "shit-hole countries" like Haiti or Africa (which some of us remember from middle school geography is a continent, not a country).
But Trump consistently goes for the big lie: We are full; there is no room for you.
We are nowhere near full, and compromise on our promise to the world (“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...”), for the first time ever--perhaps most personally because we all but Native Americans are immigrants or descend therefrom--shocks the conscience.
Diversity is our strength, not our weakness. It is who we are. It is how we became the strong leader of the free world.
Until Trump.
We are not the best but we strive to be.
Until Trump.
We support labor, family farms, fair trade, eco-friendly jobs, protected natural resources not reducible to profit by greedy CEOs and boardmembers, freedom from religious imposition, small businesses, living wages, racial justice, equal rights and equal pay for POCs and women and LGBTQ, a survivable planet for all species.
Until Trump.
Trump's cynically selective immigration policy, led by millennial advisor and Nazi wannabe, Stephen Miller, is killing US.
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