Vice President Mike Pence and a delegation of Republican Senators wrestling with their conscience, religion, the last shreds of human decency while they look on at the horrors of the immigration policy they have created. Maybe it was the Senators having to see the faces of immigrations grossly mistreated, maybe it was the smell of humans denied showers, clean water, and toothpaste for weeks at a time, maybe it was simply the sound of breathing or prayers that unnerved them as they tried to figure out what they're going to say to the press, to their children, to their own reflection in the mirror. This is not the picture of powerful men trying to reach out and help others in a Christianly way. It is the picture of weak people seeing the consequences of their complicity with evil.
In order to hide from their own immorality, they have projected out on to the victims of their complicity. They claim that the people in cages are 'illegals.' The people seeking freedom have committed an illegal act in their quest for asylum
It is not illegal to seek asylum. It is not illegal to run from terrorists, dictators, natural disasters, famines, mass killers. it is not illegal to run with nothing but the clothes on your back and to run for months with minimal food and shelter b/c you do not want your kids to get slaughtered in front of you. It is not illegal to want to avoid death and torture by running away from destroyed countries and walking toward the promise of being able to live. It is not illegal to cross a border in the hopes of getting refuge. There is no such noun as 'illegals.' It only became illegal when the color of those running started to get darker.
The migration of black and brown people is not illegal. It seems like the only time POC are welcomed into Western countries is if they come as the property of white people. Even now, the largest boom of illegal activity is sex trafficking of mostly poor POC who are brought in as slaves for the likes of Jeffrey Epstein, Trump, and his gang of pedophile rapists. They have no problem with that kind of 'illegal.' They secretly support that backchannel of coyotes and smugglers who provide slaves to service them, clean for them, work in their hotels, and be brutalized by them.
They do not have a problem with people of color coming here. They have a problem with free people of color. And a free person of color (particularly a man) is assumed to be a criminal in the making, shiftless, up to no good, a gangster. This has always been the American paradox and the cruelty of the capitalist white patriarchy. Four hundred years later we are still dealing with the slave mills and lynch trees of white fragility.
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