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Trump’s de­hu­man­iz­ing rhetoric is dan­ger­ous

The Daily Record - 6/8/2018

President Trump has spent his first year in office rewarding the white supremacist “alt-right” movement attacking on Latinos, Muslims, African Americans, people with disabilities and women.

Lately, at a conference on sanctuary cities Trump said: “These are not people. These are animals”.

His insinuation that immigration status or criminal record determines humanity is not only appalling — it’s dangerous.

During the Holocaust, the Nazis called Jews “Subhumans.” Dehumanizing rhetoric is dangerous when it comes from the mouth of the president.

But who is teaching who? Five days before Trump’s “animals” comment, John Kelly, told an interviewer that undocumented immigrants are “not people that would easily assimilate into the United States, into our modern society.”

I remember reading about Georgia Governor Clifford Walker’s declaration in 1924, that he “would build a wall of steel, a wall as high as Heaven, against the admission of a single one of those Southern Europeans who never thought the thoughts or spoke the language of a democracy in their lives.” Walker was speaking at a Ku Klux Klan rally.

It is frightening, when the administration’s policy is to separate immigrant children from their parents and put them in military bases or in foster care or whatever.

At least 1,500 immigrant children are missing since Trump took office.

It is chilling when the administration’s rhetoric is paired with the presidential pardon of an Arizona sheriff found guilty of ignoring a judge’s order telling him to stop violating the civil liberties of Latinos.

Or when it’s paired with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement that holds American citizens in detention centers, destroys water supplies left for migrants in the desert and knowingly deports people to their death.

Lupe Williams

Wooster

CREDIT: LUPE WILLIAMS

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