Trump Exploits Undocumented
The sign I carried at the No Kings march in Duluth Minnesota on Saturday
There is a reason undocumented people live in the United States doing the work American citizens don’t want to do and gracing us with inexpensive food, housekeeping, child care, and their home building skills. Donald Trump and his ilk have made fortunes paying them sub living wages. For years Trump hired dozens of them at his golf courses and other work places. They were saving the Trump Organization money when he ran for President in 2015 and he said they were bringing drugs, disease and eating our pets.
When the first Trumps came to the United States in 1869 in the aftermath of the Civil War it was to a nation that had just passed constitutional amendments ending slavery and granting all slaves citizenship. How Donald Trump’s father accepted them is up for debate. At a 1927 KKK parade in the Queens a melee broke out and Fred Trump was “detained” by police for refusing to disperse. As such he was a model for anti-Ice peaceniks. In later years the troubadour Woody Guthrie penned a song about how Fred Trump refused to rent his apartments to black Americans. Like the father the son was feisty. Don sued the New York Times for reporting he wasn’t a billionaire. Donald lost that case which may explain why he loathes both the free press and the courts. How dare blind justice refuse to peak under her blindfold to excuse him when he breaks the law or lies.
Trump is spending $134 million to send 4,000 national guardsmen and 700 marines to guard five square blocks. Less than a square mile, this is where mostly peaceful Californians are protesting the hooded ICE agents hunting down people like Victorina Morales. Victorina used to make Trump rich as an undocumented working at Bedminster and Westchester. Her boss helped her falsify a Social Security number. Defying courts and the Constitution the President is invading California over the loud objections of its’ Governor. Disappointed at his failure to be offered a Nobel Peace Prize his consolation is inspiring this generation’s song writers to top the lyric “four dead in Ohio.”
Trump finds protests against the mistreatment of the undocumented almost as repugnant as being drafted and shipped out to fight in Vietnam. His KKK cozy father found a doctor to attest to his son’s bad feet. As for the soldiers like John McCain who came back crippled from that war Trump called them “losers.” I suppose the same goes for the young soldiers carrying guns to face off with protestors who are upset that ICE’s enforcers hide their faces like the KKK. Protesters don’t like it when the accused are denied court hearings and sent to El Salvador without passing “Go.” Heck, ICE seizes them in the courtroom. A day ago, when a minister objected to a raid in her church an agent reportedly put a gun in her face.
83 percent of the famously pious Republicans favor Trump’s having armed troops face off with peaceniks. This seems at odds with Mathew 5, 3-11 where Jesus says:
3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
KJV
Trump has sacked the generals who don’t want to violate the law forbidding the army to police civilians. The president is grooming soldiers who agree with his politics and culling those who don’t so that soldiers will cheer at his speeches. Soon our soldiers will hail Trump like Rome’s legions who saluted the god Caesar saying, “We who are about to die salute you.”
I’m reading Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton who led what Americans like to call the smartest collection of men in the world. They drew up the Constitution that Trump is at war with. I’m rooting for Hamilton.
With help from Duluth’s JS Print Group, Inc I put Trump’s maid and a victim of ICE on a lawnsign which I will wave at a peace march this Saturday. I have more for people who still believe America is the land of the free and not a land that tears families apart without justice.
This and more can be found at my old blog lincolndemocrat.com