This is not America
Politico reports that Donald Rump is preparing to send at least 9,000 people to Guantanamo Bay this week. Right now, these (Immigrants?) are busily being vetted by Trump’s ‘s racist employees. I put a question mark after Immigrants for a purpose, and that purpose is to ask: how do we even know WHO Trump is sending to these awful places?
Reports — many of them — have leaked, saying that some of the people being deported are U.S. Citizens. Indeed, just last week, Trump attempted to deport a sick female child who needed to be here to receive medication for a life-threatening disease. Trump didn’t seem to care much about the little girl’s welfare, demanding she be taken out of the country anyway, but luckily enough, people protested, and he backed down.
This is not America. It’s not the America I know. It’s not the America I used to admire so deeply, the America whose lands sent me into a frenzy, the America whose freedoms I could taste, whose all-inclusiveness I could see, and whose beauty I could smell.
Instead, it’s — something else. Some stark and something very primitive. It is not certainly any longer a place where people can move around without fear, confident that they won’t be scooped up like rabbits and blindfolded by terrifying men in masks; it isn’t the place where schools and churches used to be safe spaces, safe against the monsters of the night, called ICE.
Can one begin to imagine the fear and terror some of these people must feel? Can one begin to imagine the utter futility, the imposing terror of the house of horrors that is Guantanamo Bay? When we take power back, we will end this crap. For I want to see America — MY America, your America, once again restored to a joyful place, a place of beauty and yearning where people come in droves to walk about the beautiful, freedom-loving streets of this incredible place called America.
