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Go Ahead, Deport Me I DARE YOU!! [1]

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Date: 2025-04-21

See that brown guy over there? You want to send him to El Salvador? No. I am standing in your way! You want to deport him without due process? You will have to deport me first!

See that black guy over there? You want to send him to some un-named country? No. I am standing in your way! You want to deport him without due process? You will have to deport me first!

I am a third generation, American-born, lily white, blue-eyed, blond. College educated. Successful. Self-sufficient. Civics education? Check. History education? Check. Tech savvy? Check. Super voter? Check.

I am old enough to remember JFK’s assassination and funeral, old enough to remember MLK’s assassination and funeral, old enough to remember Malcolm X, Bloody Sunday, the TET Offensive, Mi Lay, Kent State, Watergate, Wounded Knee, Love Canal, BP oil spill, New Orleans after Katrina. But I have never seen anything like this.

See that brown guy over there? He’s my doctor. You will deport him over my dead body. See that Black guy over there? He’s my financial advisor. You will deport him over my dead body.

See that Asian woman over there demonstrating against the threat to Medicaid, to Medicare, to Social Security, to VA cuts, to federal employees? Oh, hell.

That is more than my neighbor, more than my friend. We are SISTERS. She’s seen what I have seen. Did I mention she’s my sister? Along with that brown guy’s sister. And that black guy’s mother. And that queer guy’s aunt. And that Arab guy’s grandmother. And that Jewish guy’s daughter.

See that Ukrainian graduate student studying microbiology? Her dad is fighting right now in Kiev, fighting for our belief in democracy. See that engineering student in Chicago? She’s there thanks to her father in a field somewhere picking our lettuce. See that scientist working on a cure for breast cancer? She’s the great granddaughter of an Italian immigrant who sold shoes door to door in Brooklyn in 1942. See that neurologist treating me for Parkinsons? She’s the granddaughter of a holocaust survivor who happens to disagree with Israeli policy.

We are SISTERS. And now we are PISSED. You have crossed a line that impacts all of us.

Please do not deport me. I beg you. I may not be black, or brown. I may not be the right kind of Christian. I may fight FOR diversity and inclusiveness (like Jesus). But I was born in Overlook Hospital in Summit, NJ. It took me many years to find peace and quiet in the woods of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Please do not deport me back to New Jersey. I beg you.

And just in case you want to abduct me off the street and send me to some foreign country, did I mention that I have this really good Attorney, and this little thing called the Constitution of the United States of America?

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