I can't believe I
have to tell anyone this, but Trump IS NOT GOD. He is not above the
law, and in sporadic trickles, his crack staff is dissenting from his
reign of insanity, ignoring his heartless mandates. Into the
mainstream of Democratic politics has drifted the demand to abolish
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Pressure by demonstrators
has be put on Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen. She
kow-tows to Trump, telling bold faced lies to the American people, an
act that hasn't gotten this much air-time since Vietnam. The ICE men
and women are finally coming forth. They, in sections, are
liquefying, breaking away, wanting nothing to do with the
maliciousness of his policies. Trees fathom the forest. It's seen and
rejected at last. There are outcroppings in this administration,
especially in light of the immigration policy, that don't want to be
complicit with policies as immoral as the interment of Japanese
during WWII. Nineteen agents within a HSI (Homeland Security
Investigations) unit requested, in a letter, that ICE be broken, that
they not be asked to participate in the indefinite detaining or
separation of families seeking asylum at our southern border. They
contend that being asked to do so is interfering with more
fundamental aspects of their job.
Mending the fence
An Arizona rancher,
a white male, believes that a wall is imperative. It is needed not
only to keep out immigrants, but also animals such as fox and
coyotes. Go figure. In El Passo, a woman of some color, possibly
well-tanned, concerned only with marauding critters, sides with a
fence, maybe heavier border patrol, but definitely not a wall. A New
York Times report estimates a wall will cost 70 billion and 150
million annually to maintain. A wall along the southern border is NOT
going to happen. It stands little chance of erection because, the
budget may be blown from the cost ($2,000 per person per day) of the
current policy of immigration. Also, contrary to Trump's red meat
scenario, Mexico—even more so with this new president—will NEVER
pay for a wall. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, a wall—or the
presumption of one—is a ready piece of red meat, reliable,
tendered, irretrievable, for Trump to throw to his base. It is a
herring, a perfect metaphor to enhance his immigrant problem and
closet racism.
If a wall is ever
built, a major bargaining chip will be lost to keep the Trump sheep
at bay. It is an existential relationship. The, now almost mythical,
promise of a wall is a grandstanding center-piece of Trump's
maintaining himself as a sham of a president. And what would be the
future of a wall? More evasive actions, border crossings, commerce?
GPR (ground penetrating radar) is finite. With a maximum depth of
100', with variants hinging on the minerals involved, a wall finds
new parameters. I time, over years of collective human intellect and
resourcefulness, like in Berlin, Vietnam, or the intricate series of
tunnels and mazes built at the back of speakeasys during prohibition,
I can see many deep tunnels under the wall making the transport of
ANYTHING into the U.S. becoming much easier. Future generations of
Mexicans, Guatemalans, Colombians will be thanking Donald Trump, his
bigotry, and his paranoia.
There is karma.
Bush is said to have created networks for Al-quida, for ISIS by
stirring the tempest Iraq. Could it be that Trump could be writing
the future of the kids he's traumatizing, stirring up, ala Bush?
Perhaps like the many Vietnam Veterans who took home lasting scars,
turning them prone to violence, these kids will grow up—and the
irony should be clear—angry and unloved, fearful and untrusting.
They will fall into a gang, perhaps MS-13, who actually germinate
mostly in America, on the east and west coasts.
A higher power
Drug trafficking
into the U.S., according to the CBP (Customs and Border Protection),
saw a sharp increase in apprehensions between 2012 and 2015. The
number of traffickers arrested rose from 364,768 to almost half a
million. The bulk of the drugs, massive amount of cocaine and tons of
marijuana, are coming into the U.S. from the southern border.
However, drugs like Ecstasy come from the North, small amounts of
methamphetamine, and a dash of cocaine. Drugs enter on the western
border. They're coming in on the East. Trump is surrounded and he is
taking it out on families. He is a racist and anyone loyal to him,
complicit to his demagoguery, is racist by proxy.
The real deal
Mexico does not
produce cocaine. The drug cartels move Colombian grown cocaine
through South America, Central America, on the way to North America.
On the way, innocent bystanders are either collateral damage, they
become mules, or trek to America seeking asylum, fleeing a fairly
certain death. They flee torture, rape, gang violence, or the
forcible rectal insertions of condoms full of cocaine. The cartels
are larger than Trump, but no one will ever eclipse an ego that size.
America has been at war with drugs since Nixon. It is an industry
enmeshed, co-dependent of America, with the voracity of the sale of
alcohol, tobacco, or firearms. Slowly, states are seeing through the
haze, though the pot clouds that filled coffee houses during the Beat
generation, and removing the criminal component from the equation. If
administered in equal doses, ultimately eliminating demand for drugs
in America, the cartels will dry up, or find other buyers. Maybe, if
drugs were sold on the free market, subject to tax—or even
tariff—one day, time would buoy Central America's economy and make
coming to America less of an attraction.
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