Ours is a War against the Poor

  I google and find the headlines:
  "In El Paso Jails, Immigrants Are Incarcerated Far Past Their Release Dates"
  "Trump administration starts 'remain in Mexico' policy in El Paso, Texas"
   And, I think how all this amounts to a war on the poor.
   I think of the military being called in. I think of the family separations. I think of the tear-gassings. Ours is a war against these people
  You probably will not contest the suggestion that it is a war, of sorts, what with all the efforts to stop these migrants from coming. But, you might take issue with the thought that the war is on the poor.
   It is, though.
   That they are coming at all is in large part because they are poor. Oh, they run from the violence, and they run from their governments, but a lot of what they are running from is poverty. Those who oppose them coming even make it part of their argument, saying they are not coming so much for asylum as for economic reasons.
   These are the poor. And, we are fighting them off. Our war is a war on the poor. And, we fight them at every juncture. We jail them upon their arrival, and we keep them incarcerated beyond their release dates. We seek to build walls against them, claiming they are an invading force.
   If we would but look at the pictures of these people, as we see them in the news, we should surely recognize the faces of poverty. Who, then, is our war against?