Riding a wave of nativism that’s long been in the making, one of Trump’s major re-election planks, that got him elected, was promising to take drastic action to deal with immigration and immigrants – both legal and illegal. Long gone is the promise, “Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”, now that they’re not White no mo!! No one brings up the irony of a nation of immigrants creating an apartheid system to cordon off the real natives on reservations!!
In his inauguration speech on Monday, Trump reiterated, “We will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came!” However, mass deportations haven’t begun as yet, but it’s clear they are coming down the pike!!
Trump immediately started closing off loopholes that allowed the illegals to slip through the cracks. He started off by focusing on his southern border with Mexico – where refugees were actually facilitated with a computer app on which they could apply to enter the US!! No more…the app is gone!!
He’s also enlisted the military into corralling the migrants, and has deployed 1500 of them already.
Trump officials have also expanded a procedure to speed up deportations – include undocumented immigrants anywhere in the US who can’t prove they’ve lived in the US continuously for two years or more. The fast-track deportation procedure, known as “expedited removal”, allows immigration authorities to deport an individual without a hearing before an immigration judge. In so doing, the administration is broadening its powers to deport undocumented immigrants.
He’s also signed an order to charge officials who refuse to follow the new dispensation!!
Other targets are the so-called “sanctuary cities”, where mostly Democratic officials took a more lenient stance against illegals – going so far as, in NYC, to house and feed them. This has angered even middle-of-the road Americans! “Sanctuary cities are going to get exactly what they don’t want,” warned White House border czar Tom Homan.
Trump’s new policy would also allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to conduct enforcement actions in or near sensitive areas like schools and churches!! Mexico knows that, sooner or later, Trump’s gonna be keeping his threat on mass deportations, and has already started building camps to house the thwarted. Our fellow Guyanese who went to the US recently on visas, but have “overstayed”, are gonna get caught!! For sure, that social media influencer who leaks Government documents!! Your Eyewitness knows they’re quivering in their boots, and moving around looking furtively over their shoulders.
The Government should follow Mexico’s example and construct some camps to house deported Guyanese. There might be room for the influencer at Camp Street??
…payback?
Now, some say injustice to the native Americans ain’t the only injustice being exposed by Trump’s deportations. Think “Why are all the illegals streaming into the US, Canada, UK and the EU?” They’re fleeing their own countries, which are poorer than dirt, to try enjoying some of the “good life” they take for granted up north. But we should ask ourselves, “Why is the north richer?” And with even the slightest bit of research, we’d find it’s because they exploited the countries of those same “illegals”, and kept them poor and huddled while they amassed their wealth!!
We don’t have to look far – just consider our own dear Mudland!! Didn’t stinking rich Netherlands rob us for 200 years? And England for the same time?? And then the US messed up our politics for their own interest, and left us broken and divided for sixty years!! But what can we do?? The strong’s always gonna do what they can, and the weak will do what they must!!
…advice from Burnham
In stressing his claim to the leadership of any combined Opposition for this year’s elections, Aubrey Norton is merely echoing his Founder-Leader Burnham’s philosophy about ill-matched opposing forces: “Never the day can canoe bore punt!!”
