Louisiana Voice

A friend emailed me at 6:30 a.m. today to ask if we ae supposed to be safer now that we’ve gotten those three children, ages 2, 4 and 7) out of Louisiana?

It’s a good question. Do we indeed feel safer now that we’ve rid the state of three children, one with stage 4 cancer?

It’s a question that officials of ICE, Donald Trump’s border czar and Trump himself should be asking. And it wouldn’t hurt if Jeff Landry looked inward as well for after all, the facility where they were being held is in Jena, about as remote from families and legal counsel as we could possibly imagine.

Which, of course, is the idea: keep detainees as far from the comfort of friends and family members and legal representation as possible. And we just love those private prisons.

And while we’re doing all that, let’s not forget to keep referring to ourselves as a peaceful, God-loving nation open to all who seek freedom. I mean, wasn’t it the evangelicals who put Trump in office, after all? That must mean we abide by Matthew 25:40, right?

Of course, border czar Tom Homan denies that the children were deported, but they were sent packing just the same. Three babies cast out like dishwater. Obviously, they’re gang members bent on deflowering the queen of the debutante ball.

And they’re a different color and speak a different language. That means they’re different from your run of the mill white straight-Republican ticket-voter. That means they’re all gang members bent on destroying our God, guns, guts and glory way of life.

That’s ridiculous on its face. Of course, there are bad apples among those coming into the country illegally. But there are also legitimate survivors of violence and political oppression who only want to live free. And there are a helluva lot of native-born Amuricuns who are raping and killing, just in case you aren’t aware of that inconvenient little fact.

The strangers among us are eager to work on hot roofs in our blistering summers, work at back-breaking planting and harvesting vegetable for minimum wage on our corporate farms, keep the lawns of our corporate offices trim and beautiful – jobs most Americans won’t do and don’t forget that without all these good Republican-voting corporate suits hiring them, they wouldn’t even have those jobs.

So, who’s really to blame for the influx? People willing to come to a foreign country to be free or those who speak of tougher immigration laws while sneaking around to hire the cheapest labor they can find? Or how about those who say nothing while their fellow man is denied the due process guaranteed by our Constitution?

And you want to punish three babies for all that?

We should be so proud to call ourselves Americans.