โGive me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!โ
"The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus
| "Liberty's Lament" by Jennifer Oakley-Delaplante |
The United States, America, if you will, is no longer the country many of us grew up thinking it was. We're no longer that place of refuge, a "hiding place from the wind," that refugees, victims of oppression and persecution could come, raise their families, make an honest living and become part of what we used to call the "American Dream."
In a move of pure, unadulterated racism, the Trump administration has announced that it's revoking the protected legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday, the latest expansion of his crackdown on immigration.
The move, effective April 24, cuts short a two-year "parole" granted to the migrants under former President Joe Biden that allowed them to enter the country by air if they had U.S. sponsors.
Trump, a Republican, took steps to ramp up immigration enforcement after taking office, including a push to deport record numbers of migrants in the U.S. illegally. He has argued that the legal entry parole programs launched under his Democratic predecessor overstepped the boundaries of federal law and called for their termination in a January 20 executive order.
Trump said on March 6 that he would decide "very soon" whether to strip the parole status from some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled to the U.S. during the conflict with Russia. Trump's remarks came in response to a Reuters report that said his administration planned to revoke the status for Ukrainians as soon as April.
Under Trump, himself a convicted criminal, a man with no empathy or moral code, our country is quickly turning into a country without compassion or empathy, governed by a man who emulates the ruthless dictatorial style of Vlad Putin, Viktor Orban, Kim Jong Un and Nicolas Maduro.
Yet, Donald Trump's actual role model is Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany. Hear me out MAGA adherents and, if any of the following is inaccurate, please let me know in the comments.
First of all, did you know that when Trump said Haitians and other immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our nation," that was a direct quote from Hitler?
Were you aware that when Trump referred to his political opponents as "vermin," that was the same term Hitler used to refer to social democrats, communists, trade unionists and other political opponents?
Of course, Hitler wanted to purge Germany of anyone he felt weakened the genetic makeup of the country. That included the disabled. (Do you recall Trump mocking the disabled?)
Hitler wanted to rid Germany of, not only Jews, but Roma, Sinti, Blacks and Slavics, anyone not of pure Aryan bloodline. Do you see any resemblance?
Trump's obsession with deporting law-abiding, legal Haitian immigrants from Springfield, Ohio was not because they were raping, pillaging and terrorizing the town. They were not. By all reports, they were model citizens who worked hard and contributed to the community.
Trump's disdain for the Haitians in Springfied was based on pure, unadulterated racism, the primary fuel that feeds his unhinged mind.
Overt racism also fueled the language Trump used as he descended the golden escalator in 2015 to announce his candidacy for President, referring to Mexican Nationals as "rapists" and "murderers."
Interestingly, Trump's first wife, Ivana Trump, claims Trump was fascinated by Hitler, keeping a copy of Hitler's speeches on his nightstand.
While he denies it now, Trump has told others that he read Hitler's most famous literary work, Mein Kamf, which means "The Big Lie."
Hitler used lies to stay in power. He lied about using violence, lied about his own past, lied to world leaders about his intentions, lied about what he called the "Global Jewish Conspiracy."
Lรผgenpresse is German for the "lying press," a term Hitler used to describe the media of his day. Sound familiar? Trump calls "them" the "fake news." Same difference. Same technique used to weaken reporting efforts.
"Look at them back there," Trump tells his MAGA crowd while pointing to the back of the hall.
"They will go home and write lies. They're fake news."
No, this is not the America many of us grew up with and were proud to be a part of. Now our government is taking dramatic steps to reverse policies that once welcomed immigrants to be part of a great nation.
We've made the Statue of Liberty weep.
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This is a new generation of Americans. They see the refuges with phones, no working shoes but sandals, wearing shorts and expecting help from poor Americans. Americans do not see the refugees as givers but as takers. The Americans do not consider them as refugees but as shopping refugees that only want to reach the USA and not stay in Europe or another country in Latin America. That doesn't go well with the New Americans of today. The refugees also talk differently: I have a right to be helped, I do not like this lousy food, I want to go to New York, let me in or I will cause trouble for all of you etc Back in the day people would say: Thank you, I am grateful to the USA, Americans are good people and I want to be like them and achieve the American Dream, I want to work, thank you for this opportunity but I am going back to my country. Trump is listening to the people that voted for him but he is also getting away with many things in the process.
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