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Demagogue Donald Racist-in -Chief [1]

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Date: 2025-03-08

+Demagogue /RIC (Racist-in-Chief) Donald–”You Can Merely Look At People to Determine Who is a Security Threat” (NOT) January 27, 2025

Besides being a FIC (Felon-in-Chief), Demagogue Donald can legitimately be called an RIC (Racist-in-Chief). Trump has been a racist from the get-go. He and his late father had been sued in the 1970’s by the then Republican-run U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division for discriminating against Blacks who tried to rent apartments from them in New York. Donald has repeatedly used the “N”-word in front of people when referring to Blacks as well. Of course, Demagogue Donald ran three times, twice successfully for President by yelling about stopping illegal and basically much legal immigration. In his xenophobic platform, his major political obsession, he especially attacks Hispanics, particularly, Mexican Americans. He falsely sees this group as bringing mainly negative qualities of all kinds into the U.S. and accuses them of trying to commit all sorts of crimes. In a recent interview with one of his favorite admirers Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Donald declared, “his immigration policy is focused on migrants who pose a ‘security threat,’ which can be determined by merely looking at people.’” Trump added, “Open borders with people pouring in. Some of whom, I won’t get into it, but you can look at them and you can say, ‘Could be trouble, could be trouble.’” Translation: Most of these brown-skinned members of minority groups are easy to pick out . After all, “they all look alike.” These Trump comments echo those of KKKers, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists, the groups he praised after the Charlottesville, Virginia 2017 race riot as “very fine people.”

Trump has promised to crack down, imprison, and deport more immigrants than any President of the U.S. has ever done. Throughout his 2024 campaign, he promised to start on Day One of his Presidency signing executive orders implementing his crackdown on illegal immigrants and immediately using the federal government, especially ICE, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, to make massive raids throughout the entire country to grab all the undocumented immigrants it could find.Trump wasted no time following up on these draconian policies. On Thursday, January 23, 2025, just three days after his taking the oath of office, ICE said on “X” that it had arrested 538 people and detained 373, but did not say where those raids had been conducted. Already, in Bakersfield, CA about 75% of Hispanic immigrants who work in the fields in this heavily agricultural area, stayed away from work lest they be grabbed by ICE. If this continues, CA agriculture, which heavily supplies the rest of our country, will suffer greatly. In Chicago, people of Hispanic origin hid in their homes and many of their children stayed out of school.

We now have evidence of what many immigrants’ rights groups had previously said– that this deportation dragnet will wrongly ensnare American citizens as well. On January 23, 2025, ICE agents raided a Newark, New Jersey fish market, the Ocean Seafood Depot, located at Adams and Delancey Streets. The owner of this market, a Mr. Janota, told CBS News that he asked what documentation the agents were looking for and they said it was a license or a passport. Janota rightly thought that asking for a passport was very unusual, because who would be walking around with a passport? According to Janota, the ICE agents questioned the manager of the restaurant’s warehouse, a Puerto Rican man in addition to a military veteran. In Janota’s words, “It looked to me like they were specifically going after certain kinds of people–not every kind, because they did not ask me for documentation or my American workers, Portuguese workers or white workers . Puerto Ricans, remember, are American citizens.

Many people were outraged by the ICE agents’ behavior. Trenton/New Brunswick area 12th Congressional Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman called the warrantless ICE raid an “unconstitutional action against lawful U.S. citizens, including a veteran who served our country.” Ras Baraka, Newark’s Mayor, was upset about the warrantless search as well. He stated the ICE agents made a veteran suffer from “the indignity of having the legitimacy of his service documentation questioned.” In a joint statement, NJ U.S. Democratic Senators Cory Booker and Andy Kim said they were “deeply concerned” about the raid. They indicated that they had reached out to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE for answers. Senators Kim and Booker further stated, “Actions like this one sow fear in all of our communities– and our broken immigration system requires solutions, not fear tactics. Veterans’ groups also condemned this raid. They wrote Trump a letter. In this letter, they expressed fear that an ICE crackdown like this would endanger the safety of interpreters who had helped the military during the Afghanistan War as well as their families now living in the U.S. U.S. Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver, who represents the district where the raid took place, reached out to DHS to get answers about how ICE was allowed to conduct this raid. She added that Trump’s “attacks on immigrant communities are hitting home and we will not back down.”

Democrats must strongly raise their voices as these NJ lawmakers have done to condemn Demagogue/Racist-in-Chief Trump. Besides economically hurting our country, Trump is destroying what America stands for–welcoming people of all races, religions, and ethnic origins. They come here to work and contribute the best to our nation, despite what Donald and his racist allies believe. Donald continues to appeal to the worst in our nature, not to our better selves. We must get ready to defeat Trump’s GOP House and Senate majority in 2026 by coming out “bigly” in droves against them. Our democracy depends upon it.

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