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| TRUMP: Sunday's the day; no more foreigners |
Trump
says the efforts will focus on certain cities, places that he thinks are so-called
hell-holes that have too many foreigners. Yes, our very own Chicago is on the
list.
SO
ARE WE going to see people getting picked up, hauled away in a van, and wind up
being processed for removal from this country?
Is
this weekend literally “the end” of their stay in the United States for some 1
million people, as President Donald Trump insists?
I
don’t doubt there are individuals who will, by coincidence, come to the
attention of federal immigration officials and wind up being processed for
removal this weekend.
But
let’s be frank (or should we be Francisco?) here and say I doubt there will be much
of a coordinated effort taking place across the more urban areas of our nation,
all at the whim of Donald J. Trump.
FOR ONE THING, I suspect such an organized
effort is beyond the organizational skills of federal immigration officials. If
anything, it might be better to study how many people continue to evade the attention
of immigration this weekend, or in coming weeks.
I suspect that Trump’s trash talk
is more about el Donaldo thinking he can scare the chones off of
so many Latinos by making them think the end is near for their search of a
better life in the United States.
Because the dreaded la Migra
is going to come and get you, similar to how some people like to tell their
children tales of the boogeyman coming to take you away.
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| PRITZKER: The protector? |
Trump thinking he can terrify Latinos
(and anybody else who isn’t “white American” enough to satisfy his definition
of “belonging” in this country) probably gives him a tingle of joy. Although
for all we know, that ‘tingle’ is really just the president wetting his pants.
OR MORE IMPORTANT, it could be
something he says just to give his silent majority (which is most definitely
not silent and really only consists of about one-third of our society’s
population) a jolt – to the point where they’ll sing his praises and talk up a
storm about how we need “four more years” of a Trump presidency.
It’s political rhetoric, not
serious public policy. Because it is delusional to think that Trump could
seriously achieve the notion of removing more than a million people from this
country without causing a sudden vacuum in our society.
Then again, I have to wonder about
the three bills Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law on Friday – all related
to immigration and preserving the notion that our state government views the
federal immigration officials who get worked up over xenophobic fantasy as
political nitwits.
Illinois now forbids the private detention
centers that immigration officials want to hold all these foreigners until they
can get around to deporting them. Also, non-citizens will be able to apply for
financial aid if they’re accepted at state colleges.
AND LOCAL LAW enforcement officials
across Illinois will be prohibited from cooperating with Immigration and Customs
Enforcement officials. Which theoretically means immigration officials will
have to do their own work in terms of enforcing federal law. Local cops will
stay out of it.
As much as Trump is trying to gain
the support of those ideologue-inclined individuals, Pritzker wants people to
know clearly that he (and Illinois) is on the complete opposite side of this
political equation.
Think of it this way; Trump wants
to scare up the foreigners, while Pritzker wants to frighten the ideologues who
can’t comprehend a society that is accepting to all. What does it say about you
personally if you side with Trump and his trash talk?
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