Donald Trump's anti-immigration czar, Stephen Miller, claims his former boss will build mass detention camps and invoke laws to deport people without due process when Trump is elected president next November. Given that the leading Republican candidate keeps saying, "... undocumented immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country," we'd be foolish to dismiss Miller's comments as “theoretical."
So what exactly would Trump's massive deportation plan look like? For starters, the number of illegals in the U.S. is thought to be at least 13 million people now. Even if 30,000 men, women and children were rounded up and put on planes, trains or buses monthly, it would take 35+ years to achieve the former president's "purification" goal. I don't know about you, but everything about this makes my blood boil.
The last time I looked, most of the entry level jobs here in Laguna and elsewhere, are filled by people of color. For example, if they were summarily deported, who would fill their shoes as gardeners at The Artisan apartment complex, maids at the Surf & Sand Resort or restaurant clean up crews at The Cliff? As you can imagine, the list of various jobs and places of work are endless coast to coast.
Former New Jersey governor and GOP presidential hopeful Chris Christie recently said this about Trump and his anti-immigration stance, "He's disgusting." Other critics aren't as kind. They claim Trump's strategy and words mirror Hitler's "final solution."
From our founding days, we always have been a nation of immigrants. I worry about the country my children and grandchildren will inherit if Donald Trump and Stephen Miller follow through on their blood-curdling plans. Surely, there are more humane and responsible ways to solve America's immigration challenges than by building mass detention camps and deporting millions of people without due process.
-DF
Talk about ways...for one thing, Congress has kicked the can down the road for over 25 years on re-examining our immigration policy. Instead of spending time debating about milk, they could spend their time and our precious dollars updating the nation's immigration policy. They are cowards. Afraid doing anything substantive on anything will cost them their seat in Congress. Come on how about tackling the big problems -- immigration, gun laws, health care. Cowards all.