Trump and Miller’s raiding “party” targets hard-working, law-abiding, on-time rent-paying families—i.e. “violent criminals”

How often have we heard Donald Trump and certain far-right commentators who claim that his “base” supports inhumane and economically brain-dead attacks on undocumented Hispanic immigrants who are simply here to earn their keep for themselves and their families? Oh, I’m sorry, wasn’t that “rapists,” drug runners and assorted “violent criminals” who “kill 100,000 Americans” every year? Or is it that, like Stephen Miller, they are motivated solely by their racism against Hispanics, who “ironically” enough seem to be the “go-to” group for opportunities of various other demographics to vent their “issues”: “stealing” jobs for blacks, “sex fiends” for white women, and for whites generally in whatever paranoid fantasy comes to mind, and even illegal immigrants from Asia (India in particular) who are upset that Hispanic immigrants are drawing unwanted attention to them (the Pew Foundation finally admitted to the almost unchecked rise in illegal immigration from Asia, although the media continues to ignore it). It’s all the same everywhere people don’t want Hispanics around—whatever their reason for being, it isn’t anything good.  

I always find it hilarious that even supposedly “educated” and “progressive” white people think Hispanics are too stupid to know how to use a computer, yet you always see someone who vaguely appears Hispanic on those Life Lock commercials apparently smart enough to use one to hack into your personal files (it does no good to point out that Russian hackers store billions of items of personal data, then sell them in “packets”). Hispanics in your neighborhood? Apple’s anti-theft video system portrays a Hispanic couple roaming around picking off packages in front of doors. It seems like every time somebody needs a “criminal” type in their television ads, it is almost always someone “ethnic” who can “easily” be “confused” as being Hispanic. It is "racist" to point out that Hispanics commit fewer crimes in total that either whites or blacks, apparentluy because when someone who is not defined as a "real" American commits a crime--even if a native-born American citizen--it is somehow 10 ten time worse in magnitude.

The truth is somewhat different. Landlords of apartment buildings say that the ICE is targeting their most dependable on-time rent payers, many of them with children who are U.S. citizens. Temp agencies usually send Hispanic males looking for work to do the “dirty” jobs nobody else wants to do or lasts very long in. For example, there is a warehouse in Seattle where one side takes in unsold Goodwill items, which arrive in chaotically-loaded  fashion in trucks, which must be  sorted, bailed or boxed and sent off to places like Africa—and on the other side people are stacking and boxing t-shirts all day. On one side, all the workers are Hispanic; on the other side white and black. Guess who does the difficult, physically-challenging work, and who does the easy work? If you pretend not to know the answer to that then you are certainly a bigger hypocrite than you are ever willing to admit. 

And these are the working people that Trump and Miller are sending their ICE brown shirts to vacuum-up like so much “useless” crumbs. Just like Trump and Miller’s tariff idiocy, this campaign “strategy” to shore-up the racist “base” and satisfy racist far-right media fanatics can only cause harm to the U.S. economic stability if in fact “millions” are deported in a relatively short time frame; not only that, but most undocumented workers pay into the Social Security fund that they will likely never be able to collect on themselves.  Even the so-called “liberal” media is into the game: Hispanics are not “real” people, they are just objects to comment on occasionally, usually either in negative terms or in negative contexts. Hispanics are rarely if ever allowed to speak for themselves; apparently even those who were born and raised in this country have no rights a “real” American is bound to respect. The funny thing is, of course, is that most Hispanics in this country have something that “real” Americans don’t have: the “blood” of indigenous peoples of this land.