Tyranny affects us all.

Some of you black people in America have this twisted notion that what happens to poor immigrant and brown people do not affect you. You believe that because you were born here you somehow have currency with the racists who make our laws to strengthen institutionalized racism and white supremacy. "Yeah the president and his administration are xenophobic and racist, but I have a job now and I make $11 an hour." 

The president and his administration continues to pass law after law to marginalized immigrants, poor people, the most vulnerable among us,  and still there is no national outrage. We were outraged, and rightfully so, when we saw children  being put in cages and being separated from their families, but that too has cooled. It's as if there is just too much to be outraged about for one atrocity to hold our attention past the next news cycle.

This must be how it felt in Germany between 1933 to 1939. They all saw it coming, but they were too numb and comfortable to do anything about it. I am not a Jew, so I'm good. I still have a job. The government is still looking out for ME.

Stephen Miller and the rest of the white nationalist in the trump administration are trying to slip through a policy that would deny green card to anyone who would have had to use food stamps or some other form of public assistance. This plays well with their base (A base that relies on food stamps and public assistance more than the average American), because, to them, if you are not an American you don't deserve our handout. This shortsighted view forgets the fact that these green card holders would work and pay taxes like everyone else. And by all objective studies the average immigrant is just as hard working as the average American, and like most Americans that rely on assistance, would only be using government assistance on a short- term basis.

These are the types of policies being set by people in the most un-American way possible.
Consider the following article:

"The Department of Health and Human Services is diverting millions of dollars in funding from a number of programs, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, to pay for housing for the growing population of detained immigrant children.

In a letter sent to Sen. Patty Murray, D.-Wash., and obtained by Yahoo News, HHS Secretary Alex Azar outlined his pslan to reallocate up to $266 million in funding for the current fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30, to the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program in the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).

Nearly $80 million of that money will come from other refugee support programs within ORR, which have seen their needs significantly diminished as the Trump administration makes drastic cuts to the annual refugee numbers. The rest is being taken from other programs, including $16.7 million from Head Start, $5.7 million from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program and $13.3 million from the National Cancer Institute. Money is also being diverted from programs dedicated to mental and maternal health, women’s shelters and substance abuse. 

According to data from the Office of Refugee Resettlement obtained by Yahoo News, there were 13,312 immigrant children in federal custody as of Wednesday, Sept. 19, with ORR’s existing facilities at 92 percent capacity.

The latest figures demonstrate the continued growth of this population just one week after the New York Times reported that the number of detained immigrant children in the U.S. has soared to record highs over the last year, from 2,400 children in May of 2017 to 12,800 earlier this month. Last week, HHS confirmed its plan to extend use of an emergency shelter in Tornillo, Texas, for the third time since it opened in June, and expand capacity at the “tent city” from 400 to 3,800 beds. The estimated cost of operating such emergency facilities is $750 per child per day — approximately three times the cost of a regular ORR shelter." [Source]

See how that works? In order to pay for detaining children illegally and separating them from their parents, they cut funding to programs like Head Start, and cancer research. And still there is no outrage, because someone we believe that this is about those immigrant children and not us. "Not my problem, Uncle Sam will take care of me, I was born here." I am not disappointed with the slaves who worship at the altar of trump. I expect that from them. It's the rest of you (especially the people of color) who disappoint me. You should know better. And if it's one thing that our history should have taught you, it is that people like Donald trump---- and the folks who work for him, do not have our best interests at heart.