Is today’s I.C.E. Bone Spur Trump’s equivalent to Hitler’s Brownshirts, which was turned into Hitler’s private army of street thugs? Is I.C.E. the old U.S.’ Silvershirts, who can now threaten and intimidate people at will by splitting up families, even taking children from babies to teens from their parents.
They have begun to deport people who have been here, living lawful, peaceful lives some for up to thirty years, some who served honorably in the military and others who are legal immigrants and were awaiting citizenship. Yet Trump’s in-laws quest for citizenship was fast tracked while Trump is denying citizenship to others.
These I.C.E. people have a vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy. I.C.E. is the fastest growing bureaucracy than any agency in peacetime. The I.C.E. enforcers are Trump’s private army and they love him because these people are among the less educated, have profound inferiority complexes, and have an insatiable need for relevance and importance that clouds their judgment.
Today, I.C.E.’s mandate is to make life so fearful and miserable that people here legally will just give up their quest to become citizens and just leave. In 2012, Congress appropriated $18 billion for I.C.E. enforcement. Some $14 billion was spent for all the other major criminal law enforcement.
I.C.E., authorized in 2003 as part of Homeland Security under George W. Bush t counteract the mess his administration created, is consistently ranked among the worst workplaces in the federal government in 2016. The organization ranked 299th on a list of 305 agencies. Most I.C.E. employees only have a high school degree or its equivalent. They are looked upon with disdain from all other law enforcement agency employees.
The I.C.E. agents who recognize what the agency has become is not healthy are desperately trying to get into another law enforcement job. So, when you combine low education, low self-esteem, hating their jobs, how do you think they treat the people Trump has vilified and given permission to torment?
I.C.E. is teeming with racists. The government doesn’t have the resources to remove the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants, but it can create circumstances unpleasant enough to encourage them to leave on their own just like Hitler did to the Jews, and when that didn’t convince other Jews to leave, Hitler resorted to killing them. Are we here in the U.S. headed in the same direction as Hitler? If so, I do not want to be a part of it.
We need to vote for people who will stop Trump and his private army and work toward rebuilding the damage done by Trump and the cowardly, complicit Republican party.
These candidates have to support unions, minimum wage increase, healthcare for all, free education up to a bachelor’s degree, equitable housing and a universal basic income supported by making greedy corporations pay for renting our Commons and make these same corporations and ultra wealthy must bring back the cash they stashed in overseas’ banks to avoid paying their fair share in taxes. It is time these greedy, selfish people pay up or move overseas with their money.
The survival of American democracy requires the existence of a flourishing union work force. In a survey, 68 percent of Americans approve of labor unions. So, as an old sheet metal organizer, I say we need to go all out in organizing while the soldering iron is hot, to use a sheet metal workers tool. We should organize all workers no matter where or what kind of work they do. All workers have the right to belong to a union and all should support each other. If you, in your work place, do not know how to form a union, then do what Napoleon’s military adopted adage, ‘Jump into the battle and then figure it out.’ One of the best ways to organize is worker to worker and plan it out over a meal or coffee and talk to other union workers to see what would work best for you and also what unions are winning at this time. Just go for it. When things are in disarray, like the shit show in Washington, D.C., they might not even know what you are doing until it is too late for them to push back aga...
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