We've all been watching the news over the past few weeks about people being rounded up and deported. People who seemingly don't deserve it. A mother of a soldier killed while serving in the U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan. A soldier who served two tours. A local restaurant owner so beloved by the community who raised money for local police and firefighters and even fed them for free on rough days. A grandfather. A girl who gave a speech.
Yeah, them's the bad hombres Trump wants to deport all right.
Don't get me wrong - there are people who should be deported. The number is nowhere as big as some people imagine but Trump really hit a nerve when he talked about rapists, drug dealers and killers. No one wants to live by those people and those people do exist - although it seems to me that most of them are on bad TV shows.
But the people we're actually deporting just aren't those people. We are deporting people who are living the ideal of the American Dream. In many cases, these are people who have been here for over a decade. BEFORE OBAMA.
So there is a question that's been bothering me and no one is asking it. I have yet to see a single reporter ask this question and I started looking. Not one news story.
HOW ARE THESE PEOPLE WINDING UP ON ICE'S RADAR?
I think that this is something we Americans have a right to know. How do people wind up on ICE's list of people to detain and deport? Has ICE been looking for grandfathers and pillars of the community? I have my doubts.
What seems more likely is that these people are winding up on ICE's lists because someone told them about these people. So the question is: Who?
ICE, like any law enforcement agency, accepts tips from the general populace. Sometimes, that's just how the big break comes - someone talks about what they know to the right person. ICE actually has a toll-free number you can call to report suspected illegal immigrants. A top Google search as of late is "How do I get an illegal immigrant deported?"
Here's a fun fact about Google, by the way - if you start searching these kinds of things as research for a blog post they'll actually tell you what the top searches are. That's how I found this out.
The website wikihow gives you step-by-step instructions on how to anonymously report suspected illegal aliens. It is searched often enough to come up on the first page of a Google search on the topic.
Brietbart has published articles on how to report people, and on people telling other people how to report people. (Careful about following that link down the rabbit hole - it may induce vomiting).
The inescapable conclusion is that someone is out there reporting on suspected illegal immigrants. That someone could be anyone. That someone is quite likely anonymous. That someone could be your neighbor.
So is this where we are? Americans turning in the brown people? Is this who we want to be?
Some of us want to be that. Some of us want to be the ones who get rid of them brown people, so some of us are calling it in. Filling out forms with no repercussions. Doing their part to get of the brown-skinned peoples.
Is this list your path? Would this list make sense to you if instead of the word Jew it said Mexican? If so, what the ever lovin' FUCK is wrong with you?
What happened to you that turned you into such a paranoid jackass? What happened to us that turned us into people who squeal on our neighbors because of the color of their skin? What turned us into the bad guys?
And why is no one save for one cranky lefty blogger who swears too much asking?
Be careful out there my friends. Have your neighbors reported YOU yet?
And because I love you, a sweet pop-tune from Los Lonely Boys:
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