Trump waged this war against immigrants, stirring up hatred and fear of them, just to dominate our cities [View all]

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...most prominently against cities and communities with high numbers of black and other minority Americans who he's falsely denigrating as criminals and drug addicts, even as he's claiming to be protecting them.

Now he's poised to invade and occupy Chicago under the same false pretext of an 'emergency' that he says gives him authority to send military forces into a state to ostensibly fight these made-up threats he's invented to cover his display of authoritarianism.

A major immigration enforcement operation could arrive in the city as soon as next week, CNN and The New York Times both reported on Aug. 28, citing unnamed administration sources. The Chicago operation could involve as many as 200 Department of Homeland Security officials, armored vehicles, and the use of a naval base outside the city as a staging area, the outlets reported. Chicago's violent crime is reportedly down 22%, compared to the same period a year ago.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/28/trump-immigration-enforcement-chicago/85875506007/

The most insidious part of this, for me, is the way in which republicans, and even some Democrats have for years advantaged their politics by playing into the immigrant fear game, having tired I guess of the 'fear black people' game politicians played at election time by using 'fighting crime' as their campaign appeal, which they know most Americans equate with minority Americans; mostly black youth who get all of the policing, but little to none of the things other communities provide their constituents to educate and grow their children toward opportunities rather than consequences.

Now, through almost a decade of harassment and politically directed derision, as well as acquiescence by our own party to falsely representing immigrants in this country as a threat, we're now being subjected to the real aim of it all; the domination of Americans by their government at the behest of the entire republican party and president.

Whatever whinging people have allowed themselves to become engaged in about immigration and crime have been acquiescence to this tyranny; this totalitarianism; and I'm really not certain if Americans fully realize the way their own fears and anxieties about their own lives have been deliberately deflected to a class of people in this country who, on the whole contribute greatly to the nation in the money they spend and pay in taxes; and the value and experience they bring to this country in expertise, innovation, and determination to succeed; none of those ever associated with anything wrong in America, all celebrated and valued attributes.

There's nothing about these ICE raids on homes, schools, hospitals, churches, farms, firefighters, and even courthouses which enhances communities. Like everything else in Trump's effort and ambition, this is about taking away important resources from these cities and communities which have enhanced America, not degraded it in any way.

I'd bet there are more than a few people reading this for whom those words of support are crashing around in their heads with a whole host of 'ifs, ands, and buts' derived from things both anecdotal and experienced. But it doesn't take a minute to look it up and recognize that the vast majority of both documented and undocumented migrants in this country are workers and folks raising families.

There hasn't been an invasion of 'gangs' of Venezuelans or from any other foreign nation. The men, women, and, children most of interact with everyday - the very same people being abducted from the streets and their homes by masked, armed thugs and jailed in U.S. concentration camps - aren't distinguishable from the rest of Americans, except in the deliberately propagandized antipathies many express toward them; negativity and animus which they know can be highly infectious and contagious.

One of the solutions to this tyranny spreading from the Trump White House is for Americans to let go of these false resentments they've been encouraged from the highest levels of our government to harbor and act upon. It's as simple as recognizing who in this equation is threatening bondage and control over the people of this nation, and reacting and responding to those very real and present dangers right in front of us.

The only armed gangs threatening to invade our communities are being directed by the President of the United States against our own people; disrupting commerce and free movement, all for the sake of control under the false pretext of an 'emergency' triggering this contrived authority of the federal government which is being exercised against ALL people in this country, not just those among us Trump opportunistically and cynically claims are part of a criminal invasion without a wit of self-awareness.