His henchman Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Trump defamed the idea of America as a nation of immigrants as represented by the Statue of Liberty when he told reporters on Monday: “Well, I don’t think it’s fair to have the American taxpayer - you know, it’s about ‘America First.’ I don’t think it’s fair to have the American taxpayer paying for people to come into the United States."
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Of course, their real crime in the eyes of Trump and his supporters is the color of their skin or the nations they came from. Their "crime" is needing assistance in order to survive and provide for their families in their new country. Moreover, immigrants already in the United States will be subject to deportation if they are deemed to be "public charges." These people largely consist of people who pay taxes and otherwise contribute to American society. This change in the public charge law is not "race neutral": In practice it will disproportionately impact nonwhite immigrants. Wealthier immigrants, who are designated as less likely to require public assistance, will be able to obtain a green card. Poor immigrants will be denied permanent legal status, also known as a green card, if they are deemed likely to use government benefit programs such as food stamps and subsidized housing. Starting in October, the government’s decision will be based on an aggressive wealth test to determine whether those immigrants have the means to support themselves. The New York Times explains that this new regulation "is aimed at hundreds of thousands of immigrants who enter the country legally every year and then apply to become permanent residents": Their newest insult to Reagan's vision of an America as a "nation of immigrants" is a change to the so-called public charge rule. We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people - our strength - from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation.ĭonald Trump and his henchmen reject this wisdom from Ronald Reagan. This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's greatness. Other countries may seek to compete with us but in one vital area, as a beacon of freedom and opportunity that draws the people of the world, no country on Earth comes close. For it's the great life force of each generation of new Americans that guarantees that America's triumph shall continue unsurpassed into the next century and beyond. It is that lady who gives us our great and special place in the world. Yes, the torch of Lady Liberty symbolizes our freedom and represents our heritage, the compact with our parents, our grandparents, and our ancestors. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. Whatever his other failings or areas of blindness, Reagan shared the values expressed by Diamond's song "America." During the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony in 1989, Reagan made the following remarks: Ronald Reagan, one of America's most popular presidents, was a fan of Neil Diamond. There are the images of a dead father and his daughter drowned in the Rio Grande because they were coming to America for a better life. An ICE spokesperson told the news media, "We are a law enforcement agency, not a social services agency." Trump's enforcers do not care about children's tears. There is also the sadness of children crying on the first day of school as their parents are arrested and disappeared by the hundreds during a raid by Trump's ICE enforcers on a chicken plant in Mississippi.
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These lyrics resonate in cruel juxtaposition with the images of Trump's concentration camps full of babies and children who are left in their own filth, neglected and abused, torn away from their parents by ICE and Border Patrol enforcers. It has always meant "keep America always and forever white." It is a declaration that America is the white man's country and everyone else is a guest, to be tolerated or evicted as circumstances dictate. "Make America great again" is a threat, a slogan and a promise. But instead of Neil Diamond's embrace of America's hopeful possibilities as a nation of immigrants whose creed is opportunity for all that believe in the nation's values and want to add their labor, creativity, intelligence and overall uniqueness to its greatness, the Trumpists hear an ominous song of doom and destruction. These last few weeks I have been hearing Neil Diamond's song "America" in my ear over and over again.ĭonald Trump, his Republican Party, their media and the MAGA mob hear these words too.
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