The emergence of Donald J. Trump as the victor, by a surprisingly easy margin, in the last presidential election, was a brutal punch to gut of of millions of Americans who had hoped for a different outcome.
But in practical terms, no group has been more adversely effect, if not terrorized, by 47’s gift of a second term, and the consequences that have followed, than the almost 12 million immigrants in the United States without papers. – The undocumented, as they are faithfully described by their advocates and protectors across the political landscape of America.
By sheer numbers, the majority of the undocumented are from Latin America, with Mexico being the largest contributor. The immigrants from the rest of South America mainly justify their flight as an escape from political persecution, and dangerous drug cartels that threaten and harass whole villages and towns with little interference from the overwhelmed law enforcement authorities. As with the Mexican numbers, there can be no doubt, that economic opportunity and the hope for a better way of life, is the main factor for the many multitudes of men, women and children who risk all to escape to the great land of freedom and prosperity to the north.
The undocumented were once readily described as illegal immigrants or illegals in politics and popular culture, as well. In recent years, those terms have become hot-button issues in the Latino community. High-profile celebrities, politicians and activists with a Latin American background have campaigned arduously against any human being forced to accept a label as an illegal person.
There are good arguments against the idea that such a thing was was actually happening, at all. Opponents of the term illegal immigrant argue that it is a description that is grossly dehumanizing, demoralizing, inhumane, unjust and outright racist.
The truth is plain and simple. Migrants who cross the border into the United States without the express consent of the government are in the country illegally. They are illegal. This is not an actual assault on an individual’s humanity or personal dignity. It is merely a description of their legal status.
Regardless of this major point of conflict, the so-called undocumented millions who live in the shadows, have seemingly enjoyed a kind of detente. It is as if, the term undocumented, has granted them a quasi legal status.
To be called undocumented is so much, nicer and humane.
“We are not illegal. We are undocumented. We demand us our civil rights.”
BOOM!
No idea could be more wrong, as the current POTUS has sent gun-toting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents out into the streets in search of migrants who lack papers in a brash display of cruelness and insensitivity the likes of which the United States, has never witnessed since the days of this country’s original sin. – That, of slavery and the genocide Native Americans suffered as they were rooted off their land without care or concern.
Donald Trump and his mask-wearing goons are going about their deportations, in the same manner as the proverbial bull in the china shop. This administration acts, as if, no law can be stretched too thin, or snapped and broken, too quickly, one right after the next, so that he can fulfill his campaign promise to remove dangerous illegals, which were said to include murderers, rapists and other very bad people.
Who is to blame for this horror show occurring on America’s streets right now?
Hispanics who voted for Trump, by the millions, are being lambasted all across social media for this seemingly bizarre self-own as they watch their mothers, fathers and other extended family members arrested by ICE personnel. Donald Trump, in the past, described the Latino community in the vilest of terms as he appealed to the enthusiastic MAGA electorate.
Yet, Mexicans, Miami-based Cubans and other Latino groups were vocal in their support for, at that time, the former president. Trump’s blunt, crude style, as he violated social norms and crudely lambasted the Democratic party for their promotion of left-of-center ideology concerning abortion, 2nd amendment rights and controversial lifestyle issues, seemed to garner broad support among Hispanics as the last election neared.
The big red flag though, were the whispers that leaked wide and far, online and elsewhere, that Latino’s saw little that reflected their values in Kamala Harris and her campaign. She was a woman, she was pro-abortion and she was Black. Or mixed-race, which in America, is the same as Black.
The familiar anti-blackness, cost the democrats this time around. What is old, is new again.
Kamala is not for us. We want Trump.
Did Hispanics fall into a false sense of security that undocumented people were more likely to be safe in America, than if these same migrants were referred to as “illegals.”
Yes!
A closer look at movies, popular television shows, even cantankerous TV political talk shows, of the past, if not the present, and the answer has to be that it was all just a trap, and an illusion.
The difference between the undocumented versus illegals.
There is no difference.
Whatever the reason for the significant portion of Hispanics that stepped away from the democrats and turned to the buffoonish Donald Trump, this idea that has been pushed for years about the vulnerable undocumented in America, and their quasi-legal status has backfired in a spectacular fashion.
The current administration is not playing word games. Notice how few Trump officials ever use the term undocumented. If you are in this country without the consent of the government, you are at risk of immediate deportation, regardless of your status, or any ongoing court cases.
This cold, brutality is what we see on our television screens and in our social media updates.
It is reality.
If you don’t have papers, you are in the country illegally. It doesn’t matter how you describe yourself.
Case closed.
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Oliver M. Greene is a freelance writer and online content creator, as well as a keen and discerning observer of the American political landscape.
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