Almost every day on ROKU TV, I see this commercial with our Homeland Security Secretary Kristie Noem. She starts by thanking President Trump for securing our borders. I am going to be totally honest with you. I don’t think Trump has done anything to secure our borders. We may have fewer poor immigrants trying to reach the promised land that the United States once was, but, as I have written before, none of these individuals could be remotely considered a terrorist. If you remember, not a single person who participated in the 9/11 attacks snuck across the border. They all entered the country legally. If a terrorist wanted to sneak into the country, I sure wouldn’t do it sneaking across the Mexican/United States border, one of the mostly watched borders in the Northern Hemisphere.  It is not people looking for work that are a threat to our country, it is the people that are pissed at our country that I fear. Building a wall or deporting people who came here for hope isn’t what will cause terrorism.

Immigration has never and will never be an issue for Homeland Security. Immigrants are not terrorists. They are easy to terrorize, like what Trump does with his policies. It is too easy to suppress poor, desperate people, but that is what they are. Poor, desperate people try to escape the violence and come to the United States to search for a better life. To try to convince people that these immigrants are terrorists, that we need to be saved from them, is just a lie. In fact, to them, we may be the terrorists because what we are doing is terrorizing these people who have come looking for that better life. I have read that 80 percent of those people who have been sent to prisons like the one in El Salvador are people with no criminal record. Of course, without due process, there is no real way of telling.

Immigration used to be something that was near and dear to the hearts of conservative Republicans, such as Ronald Reagan and the Bushes. Both emphasized the increasing border security, but also creating pathways for the undocumented to become legalized. The businesses' thirst for cheap labor was always front and center when it came to immigration. In Reagan's final speech before leaving office, he stated that immigrants made America “a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas”. It was Trump who has normalized the dehumanization rhetoric against immigrants. It was Trump who referred to immigrants as “animals” who are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.” Trump was the one who helped bring racism and bigotry to the forefront of American politics, but he was not the one who started the movement. What started the movement was the “Tea Party”, which was a very vocal and powerful movement within the Republican Party. The Republicans ignored that anti-immigration movement within their own party, and it cost them dearly. That is what helped evolve the Republican Party into the present-day America First anti-immigration party that we have today. The American First is just a slogan and an attitude that has been around since the KKK. It is a slogan that was used by the KKK to help promote White Supremacy, similar to how it is being used today. This is not only what Trump has used to further his anti-immigration platform, by also his anti-woke platform.

If you have been reading me, you would know that I am a believer in Physics. I have been known to call it God's First Law.  For every action, there is an equal and just as powerful reaction. I believe everything that we do as a nation will have some type of reaction. That is what we fail at as far as a country, as far as I am concerned. We never ponder what the reaction will be for that nation or our nation. We have Palestinians in this country who are objecting to the treatment of the Palestinians in the West Bank. Instead of listening or at least allowing them to speak freely on the subject, we have their visas revoked and start expulsion proceedings. What the world is seeing is that we support the genocide of the Palestinian people.  Not only are we not worrying about our relationship with the Palestinians, but also with the rest of the Muslim world. What is going to be the reaction of every country that Trump has put a tariff on? Are we thinking of the consequences not only to our own economy, but what about the economies of the other countries around the world? Wars have been waged over tariffs and the damage that they do to economies. What is the damage that is being done to our relationships with the rest of the world? Will the world feel it can trust America? As we turn our backs on our what was our European allies, what will that cause? As we have turned our backs on Ukraine, what will be the long-term effects on our reputations amongst other nations to which we have made security promises? Just because those security promises have come from other administrations, they have still come from the United States, and if our word can’t be trusted, how will that affect dealings by future administrations?

It is things like tariffs and trying to bully what we consider lesser nations that will have a lasting effect on our Homeland Security. Our Secretary of Homeland Security seems to be running around with ICE and Border Patrol. You can tell how often she changes her outfits. As I stated earlier, none of the 9/11 terrorists snuck across the border, and none of them were here illegally. Most were from Saudi Arabia, and all of them were from the Middle East. They were all well-funded by people who disagreed with our foreign policy. We are not concentrating on well-funded terrorists. We are running around for photo ops of desperate people for votes.

I don’t have a problem deporting people who are here illegally. I do have a problem treating them less than human. I do have a problem deporting the parents of American-born citizens because I feel that they have to right, under God, to the same family structure that I was entitled to. I do have a problem saying that deporting these people makes our country safer because it doesn’t.