Trump is sending armed tactical forces to arrest immigrants in sanctuary cities

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4. It is this kind of action...

It is this kind of action that is most disturbing and ominous to me.

The immigration crackdown by Trump can only be called scapegoating. It's textbook. He is using human beings and dehumanizing them for his own political agenda, not for the sake of this country our our benefit as he suggests. This is not new and history has demonstrated how it works. We just see an American version instigated by a P.T. Barnum-style mass manipulator.

Immigration has been an issue for a long time and the response is getting worse, rather than attending to the changes that would improve the process and welcome people to this country, along with providing sanctuary for those who desperately need in as a matter of life and death.

Trump is making pawns out of people and is now utilizing the vulnerability of those who have no voice or ability to change that, resist it or fight back. That's how dictators begin to seize power.

I have no reason to believe that, given the time, Trump would not continue to extend this scapegoating to other groups of people and I the way he has reacted to our homelessness crises supports my current view on that. They go for the weak, the vulnerable, the needy first, and work their way up after setting the precedents. It has been working for him, and we see now used for recrimination. Why stop there?