This is Their Home

Trump has been very effective and swift and successful with his quest to round up as many undocumented immigrants he can find at the Mexican border. He didn’t have to look too far since thousands of women and children were waiting at the border with nothing but the shirts on their backs and their love for their children seeking safety in the great American democracy. Trump has been effective and thanked by every American in his successful efforts to round up the criminal gangs who are very violent. He has extended his reach to having the Justice Department instill a zero tolerance policy.

The outrage has been in his policy to separate children from their parents no matter their age. So, now he signed an Executive Order not to do that anymore meanwhile there are thousands of children spread all over the United States by now in detention centers. In this computer age where thousands of files can be compiled the outrage is over the carelessness to record information on each and every separated child. Many are so young that they can’t speak for themselves identifying information on family members. Why didn’t they at least do the very identifying cheek saliva DNA samples on these children? The carelessness and flip flopping in his policies continue to be a problem with this inexperienced President who has no knowledge of Constitutional law compounded with advisors that are very radical.

More than 2,300 children have been taken swiftly away from their parents since last month. Immigration Customs Enforcement or ICE Police have been instructed now to not only target undocumented immigrants with criminal records but also to step up the apprehension of immigrants with no criminal histories. In Atlanta, Georgia there has been a 50% rise in arrests since the Trump Administration. ICE will break down the doors of homes suspected of harboring undocumented immigrants. Obama’s directives told ICE to target criminals and recent immigrants but Trump’s directive is to arrest all immigrants including those with no prior criminal records.

Trump’s strict policy will not show any tolerance even if an immigrant has family in this country or if they have children who are United States citizens because they were born here. The American citizen child will go into foster care while the Mother will be deported. Obama never did anything like that. Trump’s arrest of non-criminals have doubled meanwhile the debate goes on as Congress tries to figure out how to deal with the DACA situation that in the past protected the children born here. Now the citizens of undocumented immigrants are being overlooked.

Trump is doing the random deportation of people with no regard to the fact that many have never done a crime, pay taxes and have jobs. Their only crime was an immigration violation. So now 11 million undocumented immigrants are facing the imminent threat of deportation. And 4,067 691 million United States born children with at least one undocumented parent are in jeopardy. Millions of people are living in fear, hiding in houses afraid to go to work. Like during World War II, volunteers are providing food when necessary. Out of fear families are living in poverty afraid to work, go to school and pay taxes. Parents are now signing Power of Attorney forms to friends out of fear that their children will go   into foster care with strangers or be left in cages in warehouses.

People are being deported who have been here for 30 years, have careers homes and businesses. Now abandoned out of fear. The 14^th Amendment makes their children citizens. Now 597,000 children with United States citizenship are living in Mexico because when the parent was deported, they took their children with them. Many children don’t speak Spanish. There are about 1,000 children crossing the border with their passports just to go to an American school each morning. Their lives are unsafe and poor in Mexico. Their parents miss their jobs and businesses in America. Most of these children go to school in New Mexico. There are no winners. Everyone is punished.

In Washington Congress has not been able to reach any legislative deal on immigration reform. Trump’s quest to deport 11 million people from America is costing tax payers too much money. The children who are Americans want to serve in our military and still be part of the only country they know and love. They wish that their parents could have at least work visas and a reasonable affordable way to be a legal immigrant in America.