It occurs to me It occurs to me that the narrative the Trump Administration puts forward, based not on much fact, has created the mass-deportation tensions we now have.
President Trump continues to declare that our illegal (undocumented) immigrants (men, women, children) are “gang members, drug dealers, rapists, and killers”. Thus, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE agents, in their arrests (holding to that narrative), are deporting immigrants. ICE is judging each one of them (without due process) , as dangerous criminals — hand-cuffing and leg shackling them as Federal agents “kidnap” them from their workplaces, homes, and community spaces.
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A number of U. S. citizens are rising in protest because they know their immigrant neighbors are not violent criminals or drug dealers, and that injustices are being committed against them on a wholesale basis.
Many immigrant families (over the years) have come to the United States at great personal cost to themselves to flee political/economic corruption and coercion in their disfunctional, home countries.
Let us get the narrative correct, and recognize that whatever violent crimes a few immigrants may commit, they are far less than those currently committed by many United States citizens. Most immigrants, by and large, are non-violent, contributing members of our society, raising honorable families, deserving human respect and dignity.