Have you ever heard of the “medical deferred action” program conducted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)?
No? Well me neither, that is, until this week when it was discovered that the Trump administration was eliminating it without public notification.
“Medical deferred action” is a government funded program that allows immigrants who are here on a temporary visa to receive treatment when they get sick or discover they have a life threatening, often rare, disease.
The program also grants permission for migrants to stay here when they are seeking asylum because of a child with a disease not treatable in their country of origin.
In the last few days the USCIS sent these people letters telling them they had 33 days to get out of the country. Period.
No questions asked. No appeals. All medical treatment for their children must stop and they have to leave.
Why would Trump do this in the name of our country?
Nobody knows. When the press started asking question, USCIS even lied about the whole thing by saying that ICE was taking over the program and could answer all questions about it.
ICE officials say they know nothing about it and have no plans to take anything over.
Again, why reach this level of moral depravity, literally sentencing children to their deaths when our medical community is saving them?
There is really only one answer to this question: It’s old fashion meanness.
There are so many words to describe Trump and his administration, none of them positive, but at this point I think the word “mean” says it all.
“Meanness” is defined as “base, contemptible, selfish, acting with malice,” to name a few of its meanings.
What is more, “meanness” always lacks reason or purpose. It is something that is done for the sake of doing it.
That is the kind of presidential leadership we now have.
This president and his administration practice meanness with no conscience whatsoever, most often directed at immigrants and their children.
It wasn’t enough to put the children in cages. If they are sick, he now wants to send them away to die.
CHILDREN.
It’s all so incomprehensible, so arbitrary, without purpose, mean, ugly, inhumane
And every American who supports Trump, every single one, is supporting this meanness.
The rest of us never imagined that Trump and his supporters could become such a disgrace to everything good about America, and about being American.
Now that we know they are, we will not let it stand.
On November 3, 2020, we will defeat this awful man, his awful administration, and his awful supporters.
We will do it for many reasons, but paramount among them will be the children they hurt, the children they abused, the children they wanted to throw away.
On that great day the real America will rise up again, turn the tables on these ugly Americans and tell them to go back to where they came from.
There is no complacency among us this time. We know what is at stake.
We are determined, we are strong, and we are many.
And we will show them and the world that we are not a mean nation, that our heart is good, that even though we are not perfect, we are better than Trump and his supporters who betrayed everything we believe and believe in as true Americans.
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we can not give up!
Absolutely not, Bob! Never.
Spot on. I will never understand the wonderful people I know who are not taking a stand against this meanness! I don’t care if they are Republicans right democrat, mean is mean! Inhumanity is inhumanity! Turning a blind rule to this despicable and constant meanness. I am sickened by the complacency of Christ-followers to these hateful actions!
Trying to understand his supporters makes my head explode, Willie. But we can defeat them.
It’s also mindless. There is not even a reason suggested for the change. Did we run out of money? Did the facilities get over crowded? Did it turn out that these children were really short gang members disguising themselves? Nothing! No pretense of anything.
The change is, as you say, mean…just for the sake of being mean. And it seems to be aimed at brown and black people. The ones who can’t survive without compassion & a helping hand.
I wonder how long it will take to rebuild systems that work after this flaming dumpster fire leaves town.
“Mindless” is a great adjective for it, Charlie. I’m afraid we won’t live long enough to see the damaged repaired, but at least we can help start it.
Good foundations count!
In the light of all the facts you have outlined, Jan, and in plain sight to everyone, it’s all the more extraordinary to me that some “Christian” leaders in your country have declared Trump to be some sort of prophet, sent from God.
Not that we haven’t problems of our own, of course. The latest is that our own wannabe Trump, Boris Johnson, now wants to suspend Parliament to lessen the opportunities that Members of Parliament will have to debate and to pass measures to prevent a ‘no-deal’ exit from the European Community, with all the damage that will result. Hopefully, our equivalent of the 3rd November 2020 will come much sooner than yours.
Nigel, many of us are as puzzled as you are regarding so-called Christian evangelicals. They see evil and call it good, and see good and call it evil.
Jan,
“Meanness,” defined as you said as “base, contemptible, selfish, acting with malice,” may sound old-fashioned, but it fits Trump and supporters perfectly!
I’ll offer a one word descriptor that your brother recently used in a LTE: The man is a LUNATIC !!
Bill Blackwell
That fits as well, Bill.
Well said Jan. It seems almost daily that this administration reaches a new level of depravity. November 3, 2020 will be a real test of the values of the American people.
It will, indeed, Wilbur, and I believe we will pass it.
I now can see how Germany took a blind eye to Hitler. We are re-living the horror.
Having done a lot of reading of German history, especially during the period related to the rise of Hitler in the 1930s, I think you are exactly right, and, contrary to what some people think, that comparison is entirely appropriate. Thank you for making it.