The minute I heard that an immigrant from Afghanistan had gunned down two Nationwide Guardsmen close to the White Home, I knew how President Donald Trump would and wouldn’t react.
I knew Trump would not restrict himself to expressions of shock concerning the crime, phrases of sympathy for the victims and guarantees of swift justice for the perpetrator. And he actually wouldn’t admit that the guardsmen had been put in hurt’s approach as a part of a completely pointless present of power with no goal aside from authoritarian muscle flexing.
And I knew Trump would use the incident to intensify his ruthless assault on immigrants, instantly spreading blame for the heinous crime nicely past the lone man who pulled the set off.
Trump accused his longtime nemesis, former President Joe Biden, of letting too many Afghani refugees into the nation when the U.S. lastly referred to as an finish to the conflict in Afghanistan after 20 disastrous years. He didn’t acknowledge that the American authorities had a accountability to guard an enormous share of these refugees who had been in severe hazard due to their assist for the American navy operation.
A kind of individuals was Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who labored with the CIA throughout the Afghanistan conflict and is being held because the assailant within the assault on the Nationwide Guardsmen.
Trump has ordered a halt to additional processing of Afghani asylum-seekers and made it apparent that he wish to see all of them despatched again to the place they got here from, even those that have turn out to be U.S. residents.
“Relating to asylum, once they’re flown in, it’s very laborious to get them out,” Trump mentioned in reply to a reporter’s query. “Irrespective of the way you wish to do it, it’s very laborious to get them out, however we’re going to be getting all of them out now.”
Get all of them out now, together with Somalis, different refugees from “Third World” nations and the numerous Latino immigrants who’re already being cruelly chased down by Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers. That’s Trump’s American dream — a nightmare for a nation constructed by immigrants and their descendants.
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