Cast Out the Poor, and You Will be Re-elected?

  I wonder at President Trump's promise that he will deport millions. I wonder if I could persuade you to pause, to look at what is happening, and ask yourself why such rejection of these people.
  They are the poor. They are the poor of other nations. Yes, many of them come without our consent, and against our wishes.
  We would deport them? Millions of them? Mass deportation? And, we would make this the cornerstone of our reelection announcement, President Trump?
   We would take the poor, and force them out of our land? We would say, "Of course we will deport them, for they come illegally"?
   Some would point out that they will use our hospitals without properly paying for them, and they will use our welfare system.
   Such a burden, then, are the poor to us.
   Reflect on this, and wonder what we have become as a nation, that we cast out the poor who come without our permission, and that we make their deportation the diadem of our election campaign.
   This is the way to popularity? This is the way to be elected? Cast out the poor, and the people will love you? Cast out the poor and you will be elected?
   Yes, I wonder what we have become, as a nation. I do so wonder.