Immigrants and Asylum Seekers Welcome Here
America is a melting pot which has enabled it to be greater than nations which build walls and fences to keep out “undesirables”. Beware any candidate—much less a Trump—who hates the “vermin”.
It is amazing to me that people in states where there are no borders believe the main election issue is building a border wall and immigration as spewed by Trump and the Republican maga team. Wall propaganda and funds abused by Trump’s first wall fiasco are apparently easily forgotten. So people who live in northern states are worried about Mexicans trying to take over their state? Really?
Here in middle America I have never heard immigration mentioned by anyone except Republicans trying to create fear in campaign ads holding up guns as the means to stop immigrants. We have an American manhood problem if guns are supposed to represent macho cowboy-ism. People want peace and prosperity, not constant bombardment from right-wing Trump sycophants running for office and spewing fear of “others”, “immigrants”, “invaders”.
Again, America is America because it has been welcoming to weary asylum seekers and immigrants who now see Trump as a threat to their accomplishments. They did not have a free ride, and they are good citizens unlike the insurrectionists and their treasonous cheerleader Trump. May justice come more speedily for haters and lawbreakers.
Toxic masculinity is the elephant in the room.
Diane K24: Thank you, thank you for sharing. You and your column are right up there with my favorites. Thank you so much for linking me with Jay Kuo.
My Mom was Walloon-Belgian. So, I guess I am one of the immigrants "poisoning our blood". LOL!
There is no bottom floor to the depravity from Orange-Carnivalman that the GOP won't cover for. As I was born in the late 1940s, Joe McCarthy was spreading his prairie fires of poison abroad in the land. Edgar Hoover had been in the FBI since 1919, and when I was 11 years old in '59, J. Edgar Hoover had been at the helm for fully 40 years, and had infiltrated the Civil Rights movement with agents provocateurs (who sometimes broke up marriages), because J. Edgar Hoover looked upon the Civil Rights Movement -- which was THE GREAT MORAL MOVEMENT OF MY LIFE -- he looked upon THAT civil rights movement as undermined by Communist control.
Having made my way to FREEDOM from a family imbued with the right-wing extreme circa 55 years ago, I no longer look to persuade the Fundamentalist Flat-Earth-Racists.
Rather, I am unfortunately of the persuasion that fully one-quarter of our country is Fundamentalist, Flat-Earth CRAZY. And though they don't MEAN harm -- just ask them, they'll tell you, "No, we don't mean harm" -- they are of the same ILK as fell for the Third Reich in 1933! Most of those voters didn't mean no harm either!
(On the latter, I know whereof I speak. I am bilingual with German, and was stationed with the Air Force in the Rheinpfalz -- which I love as a second home for all of my loved ones over there. This was in the early '80s, and there were plenty of persons who were young adults during the Third Reich. Many conversations later, I know how they thought. I would suggest reading Irmgard Keun, "Nach Mitternacht" (if translated, the title would be "After Midnight"). Very clear writing from an author who was in exile from Germany as she wrote it in the Summer of 1936.