WHAT IF – Part III – IMMIGRATION
What may happen in a Trump second term?
Did you know that approximately eighteen percent of all American workers were immigrants, and seventy five percent of all agricultural workers are immigrants?
When we build the wall and close our gates to these criminal, degenerate, rapist, drug dealing, child trafficking, gang members, we might consider that they have quite a low crime rate, in fact according to a recent Northwest University study they are sixty percent less likely to be jailed than our own citizens. They are generally law abiding, pay taxes and supply us with bread, vegetables, fruit, and candy. They paid 525 billion dollars in federal and state taxes in 2021.
They provide inexpensive labor, performing work that you and I don’t want to do, but they hold 1.7 trillion dollars in spending power! So why are we screaming about the influx of immigrants? The Trump base, especially the “America First” movement has always hated immigrants. They are extremely prejudiced.
America has had an anti-immigration policy since 1882 when the Chinese were totally banned. We seem to forget that the Chinese immigrants built our transcontinental railroad. In the 1800’s we limited the Irish and Italians but took in five million Germans who settled down mostly in the Midwest. We have always favored Scandinavians and Northern European, Protestant immigrants, keeping blacks, Hispanics, and Asians out. In 1919 three hundred and fifty thousand Italians arrived, mostly to work in the construction field. The Immigration Act of 1920 brought that figure down to forty-two thousand. The Know Nothing party hated Catholics and tried to stop the Irish from immigrating after the great potato famine in the 1840’s. In 1917 a literacy test and a head tax were imposed on immigrants. It effectively kept out blacks and Hispanics. A bright light slipped in there in 1790 when the Naturalization Act was passed allowing whites who had already been in America for at least two years, to apply for citizenship along with their children. Thus, there is precedent for acceptance for the undocumented immigrants who came here as children and have attended schools here and consider themselves loyal Americans. These “Dreamers” are seeking a “path to citizenship,” but no path will be there for them in any Trump administration, which will deport them.
We tend to forget that America is a totally immigrant society. The folks who came over on the Mayflower were immigrants fleeing religious oppression. At this time about fourteen percent of our entire population are immigrants with over 45,000 serving on active-duty status in the United States Armed Forces. Did you know that there are over 730,000 immigrant veterans and that twenty per cent of the Medal of Honor (the highest award for bravery) recipients are immigrants?
Those Japanese immigrants that we interned in military camps during World War II never engaged in any sabotage which was the justification for their imprisonment. Not even one improper act! The Germans who were Northern Europeans, could not make such a claim of loyalty. Not only were the Japanese immigrants loyal Americans, but eighteen thousand of them came from those camps and volunteered to serve in the Armed Forces. In Europe they were the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion. Of the eighteen thousand who served, they were awarded four thousand Purple Heart Medals for being wounded in combat and they received the Congressional Gold Medal as a unit. They also served in military intelligence in the Pacific.
Don’t forget the all-black Tuskegee Airmen, known as the “Red Tails” who flew 15,000 combat missions in their red tailed, P-40’s and P39’s. They came from immigrant backgrounds. 36 died. The bomber pilots preferred to be protected by the Red Tails.
Immigrants contribute significantly to our society. In science. Albert Einstein who discovered the laws of relativity which totally changed the world of physics and mathematics, was a Jewish immigrant who sought asylum from the Nazis in the United States. Italian and Chinese immigrants built our infrastructure, the railroads, highways, bridges, and tunnels. Philippina nurses are unexcelled. The entertainment world is loaded with immigrants. Desi Arnaz came from Cuba and married LUCY. Gloria Estaban came from Cuba. Bob Hope, Cary Grant and Jackie Chan were all immigrants. The movie director Frank Capra was an immigrant. The composer of that great patriotic song, “God Bless American” was Irving Berlin, a Jewish immigrant from Belarus.
The immigrants brought us food which very much as they, themselves, became “American’. The Irish brought corned beef and cabbage. Who brought us pizza? Right. You guessed it. The Italians. The Chinese brought noodles; the Japanese, sushi; the Germans, hot dogs and the Mexicans, tacos.
Where would we be without immigrant athletes? “Play Ball!” That call supposedly goes back to the 1830’s in Cooperstown, New York, although that history has proven to be faulty. Yet it is the “American National Pastime.” There are over 135 immigrants playing professional baseball today. Baseball is loaded with Hispanic immigrants. They are brown. Some are black and they all speak Spanish. Twenty-eight per cent of the players were born outside the United States. Matsui, a Japanese home run hitter, just recently signed a three-year contract with the Yankees for twenty-one million dollars a year. And the National Football League has 125 players of afro American descent with 37 international players from 25 different countries. 53.5 percent of the NFL players are black and come from immigrant roots. What about basketball? 70.4 percent of professional basketball players in the NBA are black with immigrant backgrounds.
Mr. Trump has said that only he can straighten out the immigration problem, but he instructed his followers in Congress NOT to fix it! He also refused to ask Putin to release Americans who are imprisoned in Russia until after the election. This sounds like Mr. Reagan ‘s team asking the Iranians not to release the American hostages they were holding until after the election, when he beat Jimmy Carter.
You should be aware that President Biden leads a bipartisan effort to enact a new immigration bill and that this bipartisan immigration bill is still pending. It provides for strengthening the border security ,limiting asylum, allowing 25,000 new immigrants a year for fiancés, spouses and children of U.S. citizens and for 100,000 family members of immigrant visa holders as well as temporary skilled workers, but it is a ”Biden bill” and Trump wanted the credit for it, so Donald Trump submarined it in order to made sure that the immigration issue could be blamed on Biden and the problem remains unsolved and is preserved and not resolved before the election. This strategy was designed to help Trump at the expense of the country. The minute President Trump enters the White House expect that a new Trump immigration policy will be announced, and you will be ashamed of it.
In the event Trump is elected you may expect a presidential decree that the Wall will be completed immediately by Trump approved contractors, without a bid. He will take the funds from any source he pleases, probably the military budget. The borders, all of them, will be immediately closed to all but “approved white Americans”. The entire border including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and Canada will be patrolled by the U.S. Marine Corps, the National Guard, The Texas Rangers, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. The Supreme Court will do as it is told.
There will be no such thing as a claim for asylum. All unauthorized immigrants who manage to sneak in will be separated from their family. As a deterrent children will be taken from their mothers, incarcerated and deported without any hearing. They all will be charged for the cost of the border patrol and for keeping them and deporting them. Any funds they have will be confiscated.
All persons living in the United States, including citizens, will be registered by the Army, the National Guard, and all police departments including the F.B.I. and be required to show proof of citizenship. Any person who cannot satisfy the investigator shall be deemed to be an illegal immigrant and shall have no due process rights. They shall have a private hearing, not open to the public, with a Trump appointed judge, with no appeal. They may then be separated from their families, stripped of their assets and deported. This program is designed to purify the population and will be supervised by Mr. Stephen Miller.
Tourism will be restricted. All visitors will have to pay for and obtain visas. Any visitor who stays beyond their authorized time will be arrested, charged with a crime, fined and deported.
How will we be able to get things done without cheap labor? The answer is that we will build secure labor camps and invite workers from third world countries like Haiti as well as Mexicans, South and Central Americans, Indians and Caribbean Islanders to come to the United States for a limited period to help us harvest, plant, to perform unskilled work in general and to clean up. They will be allowed to come here on a temporary work permit. They will be fed, housed and clothed in uniforms. The cost of bringing them over and maintaining them will be taken from their wages which will not be governed by any “minimum wage.” Any savings they have will be sent back to their home country. They will have chips internally implanted so that they cannot melt into our country. If we fall short, prisoners who have little time left to serve will be recruited and get paid a minimal amount and have their sentences reduced for the time that they perform voluntary labor. If they escape their sentences will be increased when they are captured. They have already been “chipped.” And of course, we will increase our population of Americans by prohibiting any birth control pills or devices and by prohibiting all abortions.
Once allowed entry, approved immigrants will not be able to apply for citizenship unless they are accepted by a screening committee which will be staffed by the Trump Organization and have signed loyalty pledges to President for Life Trump. Any immigrant who applies will have to be white.
Is this the immigration policy that you really want?
If Trump is elected, we can expect an autocrat whose immigration policy will create economic chaos. If Biden is elected there will be a bipartisan, fair, and reasonable immigration law that is “ready to go.”
Is this America with the Statue of Liberty greeting newcomers?
GOD BLESS OUR WAR HEROES AND GOD BLESS AMERICA!