Cruelty, prejudice, and money motivate Trump’s anti-immigrant policy

Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week:

The Trump administration is acting maliciously, from celebrating the removal of TPS from Haitians, the same people they accused last year of eating pets in Ohio; to the Border Czar, Tom Homan, confirming that all undocumented people are deportation targets since they are all “criminals”; to Elon Musk’s email to federal employees, telling them to provide five accomplishments from the previous work week or be dismissed. The level of cruelty and perversion is not normal.

While Trump dismantles the federal government and issues machiavellian executive orders, many of which are illegal and unconstitutional, a segment of the population seems to be still processing what is happening — including those who voted for Trump and are now being affected by some of those executive orders, or his proposals for budget cuts.

Maybe they thought Trump would limit himself to detaining and deporting undocumented people of color, and his policies would not touch them. But the reality is different.

The House of Representatives and Senate are proposing different versions of the budget. The House is seeking to finance tax cuts for millionaires and corporations, as well as the deportation machine, through cuts to health and nutrition programs like Medicaid, Obamacare (ACA), and SNAP, to name a few. Trump wants more than $175 billion dollars for the border and mass deportations.

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