I would ask Trump’s evangelical supporters, Was it ever about the children, or was it only about white children? There is nothing more abusive than ripping an infant from her mother’s arms and traumatizing that little girl into a screaming fit and then putting her in everything from tent cities to shady, privately run, contractor-operated care facilities. Every single officer working for ICE and immigration services is in the exact same position as the Nazis who said after the war “but I was just obeying orders.” What you’re supporting now are crimes against humanity.
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Dear Frank Schaeffer:
This is curious. Are you truly adopting this policy? I ask because the Trotskyist movement has called for prosecution of the whole ruling class for years.
Now then, who is actually leading resistance to our retched immigration policies?
Is it Dianne Feinstein [CA – D] whose legislative proposal is fundamentally identical to Trump’s executive order, calling to keep families tougher until a bipartisan ‘border solution’ is found?
Is it Bernie Sanders, the supposed ‘left face’ of Democrats who states his opposition to open borders, and sees the exclusion if immigrants as a means of raising living standards of native-born workers, thereby boosting the right’s fascistic narrative?
Microsoft workers are refusing to be complicit in the development of technology used for harm rather than good. They demand that Microsoft end contracts with US border agencies and any clients that directly enable ICE.
On June 1, Google was forced to announce that Project Maven, its Pentagon contract, will lapse after 2019. Google’s AI software serves to upgrade the illegal US drone assassination program by which Obama and now Trump murdered thousands in Syria, Yemen, Pakistan and elsewhere.
Neither initiative came from the Democrat Party. Both initiatives came directly from the working class itself. The working class alone defends refugee and immigrant families. A movement independent of BOTH bourgeoisie parties is the way forward.
Where has the Democrat Party pointed out the political significance of family separation policy?
What high profile Democrat is saying that Trump’s language of ‘animal’ and ‘infest’ are drawn straight from the lexicon of Heinrich Himmler and Adolph Hitler?
What high profile Democrat says that the tactics of the US Gestapo – ICE and CBP – workplace raids with automatic weapons, bullet proof vests and helicopters will be used on US civilians deemed to be ‘troublemakers’ who ‘divide us’ or back Putin?
What high profile Democrat said that by dismantling families and placing children into permanent detention, the United States has passed the point of no return?
The unmentionable reality is that Trump’s immigration policies build on Obama’s.
As Democrats and squeamish GOPers hide their role in immigrant concentration camps, Trots point out Democrat immigration hypocrisy. It isn’t hard to do.
— Between 2014 and 2016, the Obama reichadistration detained 127,000 immigrant families.
— The Obama reichadistration constructed many of the immigrant concentration camps now used by Trump’s reichadistration to incarcerate children.
— Photos of caged children intending to disgrace Trump’s despicable reichadistration were in fact taken during Obama’s tenure.
— The ACLU report from last month documents physical, sexual and mental abuse of detained children during the Obama years.
Some weeks past, posters discussed whether politics is local or international. To put the lie to the ‘Trump is the problem’ narrative,: the refugee/immigration crisis in every country lies with the vast monopolization of wealth by a tiny aristocracy.
No bourgeoisie party anywhere will address this — least of all, our US parties.
The Democrat Party pretense of opposition to separation of families at the border is about damage control. It attempts to contain public outrage lest it break into mass demonstrations and a general strike during an election season.
During the 1980s, UFCW betrayed bitter strikes at Iowa Beef Processors, Hormel and other meat processors. Hormel workers [Local P-9] refused the industry-wide 23% wage cut to which the UFCW agreed. The union put the rebellious local under trusteeship and removed its leaders. Rudy Perpich, MN Democratic Governor, used the National Guard to escort scabs and arrest striking Hormel workers.
Similarities of Ohio’s immigrant worker roundup to Perpich’ attacks on Austin, MN are more than incidental. After the strike was broken, the UFCW created a new local based on the workers who had crossed the picket lines.
The Democrat Party serves Capitalism by laying out false trails to channel worker rebellion back into support for the US political system. That’s what the Democrat Party does. That is its function in this political system.
Microsoft, Google, Corso’s Flower & Garden Center, and now the Fresh Mark factory in Salem, Massillon and Canton Ohio – workers increasingly recognize that anti-refugee/immigrant hate chauvinism whipped up in the US and worldwide is a political attack from the ruling class, Republican and Democrat, to divert attention from themselves, who alone are directly responsible for the ruinous wars and other atrocities that drive these people from their homes.
Needed is a permanent, general strike until these raids and deportations end, until there is full amnesty for all undocumented workers, and until the United States of America Gestapo – ICE and CBP – are dismantled, and all their material resources are used to aid those whose lives they now destroy. Who will call for this? Democrats? In a pig’s eye! Republicans? Not on your life!
So don’t prosecute Republicans alone. Let their Democrat compatriots from Carter to the present stand with them and answer for their crimes of war against peace and humanity, just as US SCJ Jackson argued before the Nuremberg tribunal.
We are witnessing what it may have been like when Native American children were stolen from their parents, or enslaved African families were broken up or Japanese citizens rounded up and placed in intermittent camps while the white Evangelical Christians of those days were okay with it. Trump still enjoys overwhelming support from Republicans and Evangelicals in particular. So-called Evangelical leaders interviewed on CNN were divided about the separation policy. Fortunately, 2/3 of the country is against separating migrant families and now is the time to mobilize and change our government’s public policies. I can see why Trump hates a free press. Vote folks and join whatever local political action committee you can find to do something about this terrible mess. There are more of us ordinary folks than the elites. Fight back.
Fannie Lou Hamer (October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting and women’s rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement. She was brutally beaten by the police, but she famously said;
“Sometimes it seems like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I’m not backing off.”
“I guess if I’d had any sense, I’d have been a little scared [to register to vote] – but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they’d been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.”
“The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset this applecart. What I mean by that is, so many things are under the cover that will have to be swept out and shown to this whole world, not just to America. This thing they say of “the land of the free and the home of the brave” is all on paper. It doesn’t really mean anything to us. The only way we can make this thing a reality in America is to do all we can to destroy this system and bring this out to the light that has been under the cover all these years.”
Let’s Ms. Hamer’s words inspired you to take action. Vote for the Common Good! Cheers.
Dear Joelyn:
A lawful vote requires a legal election mandated by a legitimate government.
You have none of those things.
Refuse participation in political crime.
Ways to help reunite migrant children with their families.
“We always recommend doing your research,” Larry Lieberman, the chief operating officer of watchdog company Charity Navigator.
There are hundreds of organizations working to help immigrants at the border, many of which are local charities and non-profits. If you’re not quite sure where to donate but know you’d like to specifically help the children affected by the border crisis, ActBlue has set up a portal to donate to over a dozen organizations all at once.
Donate folks if you can. Let’s get these displaced 2,000 children back to their families where they belong.
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
A couple wanted to raise $1,500 bail money for the little cover girl’s parents. Folks from around the country gave over $15 million dollars in five days. Don’t tell me if united we stand, we the people can’t make a difference. Woo Hoo!