WHAT DOES AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT LOOK LIKE?
An illegal immigrant
looks like a nickel
tails up
on the sidewalk,
fallen out of someone’s pocket.
She looks like pressed bleached sheets
on cheap beds
tucked tight,
a hundred of them,
twelve stories high.
I saw one like a mango,
peeled and sprinkled with chili powder
on a stick like America,
layers cut diagonally,
a flower on Lake Street.
She looks like an amethyst grape
plucked by the millions,
stains like bruises
but she’s sorry and she loves you.
He looks like that kid,
I don’t know his name
but he sits over
there
and his lunch stinks.
An illegal immigrant looks like
Chinese Exclusion 1882
Asian Exclusion 1924
Executive Order 9066
Patriot Act 2001
SB1070 five days ago
1911
looks like an angel made of bunk beds and cells
where Chinese men write poems into the wooden wall like it could weather the wait,
looks like a store sign
in 1922
“Absolutely no dogs or Filipinos allowed”,
like 1942 spam
rolled up like an enemy
internment camp sushi.
He is a community tree in the 1930s.
Or the 1940s or the 1960s
who has seen
too
many
dead people
to climb on.
He is a boat
in 1492
sailing the ocean blue
black
brown
red
yellow.
He looks like a hill
made of bodies
covered in grass
and a playground,
like a scar
on the bottom of my feet,
still growing.
He looks like
Joseph Ileto who looked like Vincent Chin who looked like Fong Lee who looked like
your neighborhood postman, like a good husband, like a boy on a
maddening threatening five deviled bicycle,
looked like a good target, like a bad seed, like the wrong crowd, like a jap mother f**ker who stole “our” jobs,
so one by one by a hundred they
killed them
innocently.
Because if you look
like the law
you look
legal.
And the rest of us are just wire cages
and a magic trick away
from knowing whose turn it is
to be the sacrificial pigeon.
And it’s showtime.
All the time.
Christy Namee Eriksen
Do you support the deportation of all MS 13 members and all their associates?
I support Americans remembering that not all illegal immigrants are MS 13 members, rapists, criminals or animals. The President conflates the two in his messaging, and has been since his campaign.
All illegal immigrants are criminals. Their being here is a crime.
Their actions lump them into the criminal category.
And more than just ms 13 are rapists and criminals.
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best — they’re not sending you,” Mr. Trump said then. “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
Obviously and completely true.
"Why are we having all these people from s---hole countries come here?"
1. He denies saying that.
2. They aren't coming here because home is wonderful.
Remember the mothers of children slain by illegal immigrants that Trump likes to display? Standing in the background looking heartbroken. Yes, they are heartbroken. What is his message? Illegal immigrants KILL. Trump isn't drawing a fine line anywhere. His message conflates the criminal element from the majority who are not hurting anyone.
Now the gang members are also animals. No, they are violent human beings who need to be dealt with by the law. Shut your pie hole, Trump, and try acting like a President for once.
THis is not a time for fine distinctions, because people like you are using fine distinctions to distract from issues, like MS 13 literally killing US.
Like you did in this post.
I ask you if you support the mass deportation of all ms 13 members and all their associates.
You did not answer that.
At all.
These people are famous for machete killings and you can't answer if you want them deported.