Saturday, May 11, 2019

When your enemy is the poor, your target is the innocent.

   Think on what America's biggest priority has been since President Trump took office: preventing the influx of immigrants at our southern border.
   An invasion, we call it, a national emergency.
   They come from Honduras, and Guatemala and such countries, seeking a better life.
   They are the poor.
   They turn to America for relief, and are greeted not with charity, but with contempt.
   They are told they are ISIS and MS-13. They are told they are rapists and murderers.
    They are the poor. Thousands of them, pouring northward, crossing into a country that doesn't want them.
   For all the labels placed on them, they remain the poor. There may be rapists and murderers among them, but there are tens of thousands of them who are not. There are tens of thousands of them who are simply poor people from other countries, fleeing oppression, only to find it.
   We toss them in jail, calling it a detention center. Until we got in trouble for it, we separated them from family members -- just to make it hard on them. We speak of chain migration (for they come to unite with families) as if that is some sin.
   It is beneath the dignity of our nation, what we are doing. If we, ourselves, are not oppressing them (which we are), we are making enemies out of them.
   Look at the priorities of our nation. Look at the emphasis we place on this. Since President Trump took office, the biggest priority has been getting rid of them.
   The poor.
   These are our biggest enemy? We call out the national guard against them, and, if it were legal, we would engage our armies more meaningfully than we do.
   Before you pull the trigger, America, look at what is in your sights, look at who you've chosen to be your enemy -- your number-one enemy.

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