When you look back at the history of American presidents it’s not hard to realise that the current holder of the office is the most un-American that there has ever been. Since day 1 Trump has either signed executive orders that go against everything America stands for or rescinded executive orders and policy that Obama brought in in his eight years in office. And today, with Sessions confirming that DACA is being rescinded, if Trump wasn’t already the most un-American person to ever hold the office, he is now.
What Trump and many in his administration somehow fail to remember is that every single person in America who isn’t Native American, is an immigrant. This is basic knowledge for anyone with a fully functioning brain. What’s also basic knowledge is the fact that America has the home and land of the immigrant. From Italians to the Irish, the United States has seen numerous instances of mass immigration over the years. And while DACA can be seen as a different kind of immigration, it’s the same kind of thing. 800,000 people will be at risk of deportation of Congress doesn’t sort out Trump’s mess in the six months that they’ve been given to fix things. And those 800,000 people were all children when originally brought into the United States by their parents. They had no say in the matter and in the vast majority of cases they have zero connection to the country they originally came from. That of course means that if deported back to those countries, they’d have nothing. No family, no place to live, no job, no money, absolutely nothing. Since coming over as children these people have attended school, worked hard, paid taxes, had children themselves, and contribute as every other American does in this country. But that isn’t good enough for Trump.
Immigrants have previously been welcomed to this great country with open arms because Americans themselves are immigrants. It is ludicrous to say that these people shouldn’t be here because they are illegal. False, these people should be here because they are American. America is all they’ve known, all they’ve worked for, all they’ve lived for. And the thought of taking that away from them is as un-American as it gets.
And this is just the latest in a long line of un-American things Trump has done. It’s time for Congress to act to protect these people. And when they’re done, it’s time for them to realise that Trump is at the core of all these un-American issues because he himself is un-American.
The Political Expat 