Here is an editorial from THE WEEK Magazine. It needs no comment from me.
It does happen here
Our long history of rounding people up and kicking them out
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Mass deportation. It’s an Orwellian phrase we associate with the Holocaust or the Armenian genocide.
Sending armed troops to pull millions of people, including babies and seniors, from their homes, forcing them into squalid camps, and then transferring them to a land where they have nothing — it sounds like something only a crazed dictator would do.
Not a democratic country, certainly not my own country.
But in fact, the U.S. has done it multiple times, and not just during wartime.
The Trail of Tears, when President Andrew Jackson signed the 1830 Indian Removal Act to expel tens of thousands of Native Americans from their land.
During the Depression, when the U.S. kicked out up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent, half of them U.S. citizens, to preserve jobs for whites.
And Operation Wetback (yes, really), when President Dwight D. Eisenhower used the Border Patrol to truck over a million Mexican laborers back to Mexico. All of these actions were popular at the time, and all were seen in retrospect as shameful chapters in U.S. history.
Yet here we are again. Studies show that deporting immigrants doesn’t help the economy; it hurts it.
But Donald Trump says that if he’s elected president, he will expel up to 20 million people, a figure far higher than the 11 million undocumented immigrants believed to be in the U.S. now.
At the Republican convention, attendees carried signs blaring “Mass Deportation Now” and chanted “Send them back!”
In a June poll, 6 in 10 voters said they supported the idea, including a third of Democrats, while just under half supported mass detention centers where those arrested (some of them doubtless citizens) would be sent for processing.
Do these Americans understand how traumatic such an upheaval would be?
The spectacle of troops going door to door, of families being rounded up, would be heart-wrenching.
The blatant racismof the endeavor — it’s not Norwegians over-staying visas who would be targeted — would rip this nation apart.
Mass deportation is not un-American. But it should be.
This is the editor’s letter in the current issue of The Week magazine.
This is only looking at one end of the event — the end where people are being deported from. Try looking at the ends where people will be deported to. Let’s say even half of that number is from Mexico. Where the hell would Mexico put a sudden influx of 10 million people. How would they feed them? Where would they house them? Would it be possible for 10 million new jobs to be created to make it possible for importees to support themselves. And that’s a big country like Mexico. What about the small Central American countries, or the Caribbean and West Indies Islands, including Cuba. At even 100,000 people deported to each of these countries, the economies would fail. People would starve. Hospitals would be overwhelmed. Social services would implode!
I have no idea where these 20 million people will go, their prior countries or their parent’s prior countries would have to close their borders before the first plane landed, or the first ship docked. Any respect America still has in other parts of the world would disappear. This would become a global crisis. All because Republucsns are a bunch of backward-thinking racists who care nothing about anyone but themselves. To even pretend to think this is doable is insane on so many levels.
Think of the SS St. LOUIS with its 937 passengers. That was a debacle of shame for every “white” nation in the world. Imagine 20,000 SS St. LOUISes floating around the oceans of the world! How could anyone be so cruel and stupid.
But this is the picture Democrat’s need to paint for American voters. Republicans are willing to displace 20,000,000 people without a thought to their culpability in mass upheaval. Anyone who votes Republican is a heartless idiot.
Racism has not disappeared in the least. It merely expanded. Now we reject anyone trying to get away from being murdered in their country and wanting asylum in ours.
A monetarily sovereign government can afford to place the homeless into any number of empty high rises all over America, provided those buildings are redesigned from the inside out to accommodate the needs of the displaced.
If there’s still not enough room for them, then what a great way to get the economy going with an ultramodern public works effort in every city such as the one proposed and originally designed by Buckminster Fuller known as Old Man River City in East St. Louis, Illinois. These domed, OMRCs would continue to help accommodate the displaced entering the USA.
If we can easily find for the Pentagon billions of dollars for state of the art war, and war preparation between wars, we most certainly should be willing to finance large-scale architectural engineering that frees up (rather than freezes) the individual in an ultra-modern urban environment dedicated to progressive growth and harmony.
Urban planners and designers are eagerly awaiting to share their solutions with the world if only stunted, myopic politicians would get out of the way.
#Monetary Sovereignty - Mitchell 
This is only looking at one end of the event — the end where people are being deported from. Try looking at the ends where people will be deported to. Let’s say even half of that number is from Mexico. Where the hell would Mexico put a sudden influx of 10 million people. How would they feed them? Where would they house them? Would it be possible for 10 million new jobs to be created to make it possible for importees to support themselves. And that’s a big country like Mexico. What about the small Central American countries, or the Caribbean and West Indies Islands, including Cuba. At even 100,000 people deported to each of these countries, the economies would fail. People would starve. Hospitals would be overwhelmed. Social services would implode!
I have no idea where these 20 million people will go, their prior countries or their parent’s prior countries would have to close their borders before the first plane landed, or the first ship docked. Any respect America still has in other parts of the world would disappear. This would become a global crisis. All because Republucsns are a bunch of backward-thinking racists who care nothing about anyone but themselves. To even pretend to think this is doable is insane on so many levels.
Think of the SS St. LOUIS with its 937 passengers. That was a debacle of shame for every “white” nation in the world. Imagine 20,000 SS St. LOUISes floating around the oceans of the world! How could anyone be so cruel and stupid.
But this is the picture Democrat’s need to paint for American voters. Republicans are willing to displace 20,000,000 people without a thought to their culpability in mass upheaval. Anyone who votes Republican is a heartless idiot.
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Excellent comment.
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Wow, they’re not even trying to use dog whistles anymore. They are saying the quiet part out loud.
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Racism has not disappeared in the least. It merely expanded. Now we reject anyone trying to get away from being murdered in their country and wanting asylum in ours.
A monetarily sovereign government can afford to place the homeless into any number of empty high rises all over America, provided those buildings are redesigned from the inside out to accommodate the needs of the displaced.
If there’s still not enough room for them, then what a great way to get the economy going with an ultramodern public works effort in every city such as the one proposed and originally designed by Buckminster Fuller known as Old Man River City in East St. Louis, Illinois. These domed, OMRCs would continue to help accommodate the displaced entering the USA.
If we can easily find for the Pentagon billions of dollars for state of the art war, and war preparation between wars, we most certainly should be willing to finance large-scale architectural engineering that frees up (rather than freezes) the individual in an ultra-modern urban environment dedicated to progressive growth and harmony.
Urban planners and designers are eagerly awaiting to share their solutions with the world if only stunted, myopic politicians would get out of the way.
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