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By Joshua S
After eating and talking with my largely mixed family in the city of Los Angeles — a city that includes countless so-called “evil” undocumented people — I can say they are not evil, though they are constantly demonized as such.
I have no time for President Trump’s deranged messages last night, especially in the wake of the senseless shooting and murder of National Guard members in D.C., resulting in the death of National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom, 20. Andrew Wolfe, 24, remains in critical condition. We have learned that the suspect in this case has been named Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who worked with CIA-backed military units in Afghanistan and was granted asylum earlier this year by the Trump administration.
Yet despite his CIA and Trump connections the president late Thursday, announced he will “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries” — one day after an Afghan national allegedly shot two National Guard members two blocks from the White House.
The president conveniently forgot that this suspect worked for the CIA. He now only wants people who can be considered “net assets,” mind you, many undocumented people do jobs that Americans don’t want to do.
Trump went full Trump last night, saying on Truth Social:
“I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.”
In response, American Immigration Council Senior Fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick tweeted that Trump’s claim that most of the immigrant population in the U.S. is “on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels” is outrageous.
“As insulting as the ‘deplorables’ comment, and on Thanksgiving Day no less,” Melnick added, “This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language.”
After the initial attack yesterday U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director Joseph Edlow said in a post on X: “At the direction of @POTUS, I have directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern.”
Department of War head Pete Hegseth has called for more troops in D.C.
This is what white nationalists do — it’s tried and true: blame individual bad actors for bad acts while painting entire groups of people as demons and evil. The truth and facts are the complete opposite, but they use any tragedy to create panic.
I’ll add that I wrote about this yesterday — the Democrats are no better and have followed this playbook for years. Barack Obama took the “Secure Communities” pilot program initiated by George Bush and expanded it nationwide, leading to over 2.3 million deportations. He also phased out private prisons for U.S. citizens because of safety, security and cost concerns but allowed to remain open to house these so-called “evil” actors,
Largely due to pressure from immigration groups that helped him get elected — remember Sí Se Puede. Obama ended the program in 2014 and started DACA. Trump reinstated it in 2017, and Biden has followed the Trump playbook regarding the “wildly open” southern border.
I’ll end by saying that what happened to these service people is abhorrent and evil and should not be forgotten. While a death-penalty discussion can be had another day, this actual evil criminal should be punished to the fullest extent of the law — and I’m sure many of the millions of undocumented people would agree.
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