Immigration Isn’t What’s Threatening My Ability to Thrive in America. Capitalism Is.
Starting this summer when the Trump administration put its “zero tolerance” pilot program regarding immigration to work along the Mexican border— effectively separating parents and legal guardians from minor children by the thousands in the course of only a couple of months in a policy move that can only be called cruel and inhumane— I watched the debates explode on social media.
It was not my friends saying troubling things, but their friends or relatives — who in smug tones decried that the people trickling into our country are taking away precious resources that “real” Americans so desperately need. There’s not enough for everyone, they asserted again and again, so you can’t care about the poor citizens of this nation and also about destitute people fleeing for their lives and attempting to seek refuge and a new life in the United States.
To all of that I emphatically say “bullshit.” And also — wow, the super elite has really pulled the wool over all your eyes! That is of course, if you actually believe that and aren’t just using the excuse as a paltry cover for your racism.
First off, we have the resources to help both those coming in from other countries and those of lesser means who already reside here. In the beginning of this year, Oxfam…
