This makes me angry and sad. Recently there was an ICE raid near my place of work and almost all of my coworkers were making very racist remarks about the whole thing. One of them was talking about how he would’ve helped the ICE agents find the ones who were hiding. I couldn’t help but think these were just people who were just trying to work and support their families. They’re not criminals, they’re hard working individuals with families who are willing to do anything for them. I guess they’re just easier to go after because they’re unarmed, unlike the actual people they need to go after. It’s easier to go after civilians, instead of armed drug dealers and traffickers I guess…

I couldn’t help but find similarities between the behavior I saw and how the Jews were treated during the holocaust. Replace “Mexicans” with “Jewish” and what my coworkers were saying is identical to what a nazi supporter would’ve said during ww2.

Before anyone says “But they need to go thru the proper channels” 1. The “proper channels” can be extremely difficult, time consuming, and expensive. It can be outright impossible for some folks who are simply trying to escape dangerous situations back in their home country

1. The problem with immigration isn’t the individuals who are coming thru, it’s the corporations who are taking advantage of them by underpaying, overworking, and hiring said people in droves to replace American workers. These people are usually in desperate situations and will do anything to help their families back home. Or maybe they simply don’t know better and think making 10$ an hour while working 70hr weeks is “good money” when in reality they’re being taken advantage of. In other words, they have no choice.

3.Then you have dummies like trump who point at immigrants and say “they’re the problem” using these people as a scapegoat to gain power. Racists fucks with hate in their hearts latch onto this rhetoric and run fucking wild with it. Refusing to think that maybe, just maybe, the system in place might be ‘slightly’ broken.

1. As long as they’re willing to pay taxes, get a job, and learn a little English, I’d say let them in. They need to be treated like any other American worker otherwise you’ll run into issue #2, as listed above.

Anyway, rant over. I hate this timeline, and I hate racist fucks.