The news media have generally shirked its responsibility to report the moral depravity involved in the mass deportation scheme that Trump proclaims he would perpetrate if reelected.  Instead of addressing the flagrant racism and ethnic cleansing embraced by the idea, the news programs have general simply performed cost-beneficial analyses of the resources needed to prosecute the removal of millions of human beings—most of whom have legal protections from such oppressive practices without due process.

Now, Trump has made outlandish pronouncements before that did not come to fruition: not only because they were too intricate to execute, but also because a critical mass of people were horrified by the cruelty that manifested itself in separating children from their parents and caging them like wild animals.  His forecast about building a wall along our southern border and forcing Mexico to pay for it was as laughable as it was impracticable.  Moreover, his caustic rhetoric depicting immigrants as dirty, subversive, drug addicted, terroristic, genetically inferior, and so forth made mockery of the U.S. presidency as the model of freedom and democracy around the world.

The United States would not even exist without massive immigration from around the world.  Unfortunately, even back in colonial times, settlers committed homicide and genocide against indigenous peoples, including Mexicans, engaged in the slave trade forcing Africans to work without pay as the property of whites, and mistreated other ethnics such as Chinese, Irish, Italian, and Japanese peoples among others.  America, so called, was headed for a type of greatness, but her racial and ethnic prejudices and discriminatory practices substantially and severely damaged her global reputation—and still does so today!

The blatant fear-mongering regarding immigration by Trump, harks back most recently to the misrepresentation about affirmative action.  The policy was enacted to redress  the longstanding history of slavery and segregation that plagued our country from her beginnings.  Centuries of dehumanization clearly deserved recompense in a variety of ways that the policy of affirmative action did not even purport to accomplish.  In education and employment, the lie was perpetrated that Blacks were taking over positions that more qualified, particularly white, applicants should have attained.  If these lies were true, Blacks would have been radically disproportionately represented in all facets of society.  Needless to say, that clearly did not happen as the racial disparities among blacks academically and occupationally continued to grow.  Affirmative action primarily placed qualified Blacks and other people of color in positions they deserved just as much as others—all things told.

What we need is humane immigration reform and a regulated and judicious path to citizenship—especially for those seeking asylum from persecution at home as well as for those sincerely seeking a better life for their families and themselves that have been impossible to achieve from where they departed.  Furthermore, our country should seek to help improve the standard of living in places where the job market and economy are failing their citizens.  If we want friendly and productive neighbors in the western hemisphere, and a healthier immigration process, we should seek to assist those suffering nations in constructive, positive, and effective ways.

Let us not allow Trump to disparage categories of people any longer.  Instead, let us appreciate the beauty of diversity and aspired to a truly pluralistic society and culture.  We can do this by making sure the racist, xenophobic, obtuse sociopath does not step foot in the White House ever again so that he can make America a fascist state.  We fought a war to defeat Hitler’s Germany; so why would we support a candidate who idolizes the Nazi dictator?

Vote instead for a stronger, more progressive and egalitarian government in conjunction with the candidacy of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz!