For the first time, a majority of Latinos – 65% – say it’s a ” bad time” to be Latino in America, though only 38% of Republican Latinos agree. Slightly more than half say they fear for their physical safety and believe that all Latinos – regardless of citizenship status – are targets of Trump’s deportation efforts.
In the recent off-year elections, Latinos swung massively back toward Democrats, more than erasing GOP gains from a year ago. It’s worth noting that these voters still said that their top concern was the economy, not Trump’s immigration policies. At the same time, one does wonder how many voters, worried about being wrongly detained, didn’t risk going to the polls.
I know that history repeats itself, as I have been stating for years, the 50s are coming back. They are back for us brown skin folks, even the Native Americans are getting in on the fun as los pinche gabachos can’t tell the difference. I am being cruel to the gabachos. I can’t tell the difference between Native Americans and Mexicans who look like me.
One US brown skinned citizen has been detained twice; the poor guy likes to make his money the way our Lord Jesus did. He is a carpenter. From what I have read, Jesus was dark-skinned, as all good-looking people are.
Leo Garcia Venegas is a natural-born American citizen who just wants to work in peace. But the federal government won’t let him. He has been swept up in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids at work — not once, but twice — where he was assaulted, handcuffed and treated like a criminal by agents of the U.S. government.
Garcia is a construction worker in Baldwin County, Alabama. Every day, he goes to work and helps build the homes needed to support the region’s fast-growing population. And every day, he works in fear. Earlier this month, he partnered with my nonprofit law firm, the Institute for Justice, to file a lawsuit against ICE and several other federal agencies, senior officials and officers responsible for enforcing immigration laws.
Like I pointed out some time back, get some popcorn and enjoy the shit show. Nothing we can do about it until enough citizens get harassed by Trump’s SS Troopers.
