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He
has a strategy in mind; he wants to get the support of that segment of our
society that is determined to think of immigration as a problem to be
eradicated – particularly as it relates to Latin American nations.
IT
WILL GAIN him some supporters. Although as far as I’m concerned, it also means
he is worthy of any abuse that comes along with it. He made a choice about the
kind of people he wants to vote for him.
So
it also means he deserves the hostility and suspicion of the people he seems
determined to single out for attacks just to try to get himself the votes of
some people whose own motivations are questionable.
How
else to explain the Trump rally on Friday in Alabama that devolved into racist
rants from the followers when Trump once again brought up a pet issue of the
xenophobic segment of our society – removing citizenship from certain people
who aren’t exactly like them.
The
problem with the remarks that Trump has made about Mexico and U.S. relations
with the Mexican government is that they are so ridiculous and over-the-top
that they make all the other rumors seem so viable.
IT
BECOMES HARD to tell just what is absurd, and what is truthful. Because the
truth of what comes out of Trump’s mouth is so absurd, in and of itself.
Take
the story that emanated out of a Latin American-oriented website about how
Trump said he wants to revoke the century-old orders that gave U.S. citizenship
to Puerto Ricans. As I initially read on the WarAgainstAllPuertoRicans.com
website.
Because,
as Trump supposedly put
it, they don’t fit the image of what the “American race” ought to be. As stupid
as such a thought is, it isn’t any more ridiculous than what Trump has
legitimately said about Mexico.
Or
the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (which was one of the
amendments implemented right after the Civil War to address the status of
former slaves). Trump on Friday in Alabama called the amendment “stupid.”
I’LL
BE THE first to admit that I can’t find back-up accounts of Trump actually
discussing Puerto Rico and citizenship. In short, I can’t find an actual news
account of what was said. Yet it is so in character that it comes across as
believable.
Just
as a story on the Mideastbeast.com website came across as truthful – even
though it isn’t.
In
that report, Trump supposedly said he was prepared to settle the dispute over
Jerusalem and the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the Arabs who live in the area
claimed by Israel by relocating those Arabs to Puerto Rico.
It
was meant to be parody, but a Muslim cleric in Jerusalem on Friday took it
literally, and went about denouncing the idea – claiming that, “Palestine is
not the same as Puerto Rico, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque is not a mere building made
of stone.”
IN
LIGHT OF everything else he says when Latin American issues come up, it would
only make sense that Trump probably thinks Puerto Rico and its people aren’t
worth much.
Trump
probably thinks that Puerto Rico is nothing more than the place where he once
developed a luxury golf course (with appropriate hotels) that has since gone
bankrupt. How could it be anything worthwhile if it didn’t add to the Trump
financial bottom line?
On
the surface, the idea of revoking Puerto Rico citizenship (which would cause so
many more problems than resolve the few the ideologues think exist) and turning
the island commonwealth into an Islamic land are too ridiculous to take
seriously.
Then
again, so are Trump’s real comments about Mexican people in this country being
“rapists and drug runners.” Whose only real purpose is to appeal to the segment
of our society that respectable people realize are THE problem we ought to
address.
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