Donald Trump was announced as the winner of the 2024 US Presidential race the past Wednesday, defeating Kamala Harris by overturning nearly all swing states (as written in on 9th November 2024). Like many other people over here, I woke up on Wednesday morning and felt devastated.
As a second-generation immigrant, I have strong views on the topic which Trump or his British buddy, Nigel Farage might faint at. Whilst calling undocumented immigrants an invasion is just extreme and unproductive, I understand the sentiment of not wanting undocumented people in the country. More people mean more resources needed, more resources mean more money and blah blah blah. In the case with the US, Trump asserted that he would carry out mass deportations to (what sounds like) ‘cleanse’ the nation of undocumented immigrants. They apparently steal jobs, take what the true American citizen needs and make an absolute mess of taxation somehow.
Deportations are already barbaric, and to proudly support it on a mass scale is insane. Immigration has been proven to be good for the economy and yes, illegal immigration is illegal and you’d rather have them engage it in a more official manner, but if someone decides that it’s worth taking the risk of cross a border or an ocean in hopes to get a better life for themselves, it seems somewhat cruel for them to be bounced right back to their origin country. This can include asylum seekers that didn’t get cleared by the government, or refugees from war. For the President-elect of the same country asserts his iron fist to expel everyone without an American citizenship from their country.
Trump’s reasoning to his mass deportation plan is to stop the drugs wrecking the nation any further as well as to quench the murders happening by said illegal immigrants. Even if this is true, it’s more than unfair to deport all undocumented immigrants because of the actions of the few.
Photo by Malte Schmidt on Unsplash
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Election Reaction: Here Comes Inhumanity, There Goes Sanity
Donald Trump was announced as the winner of the 2024 US Presidential race the past Wednesday, defeating Kamala Harris by overturning nearly all swing states (as written in on 9th November 2024). Like many other people over here, I woke up on Wednesday morning and felt devastated.
As a second-generation immigrant, I have strong views on the topic which Trump or his British buddy, Nigel Farage might faint at. Whilst calling undocumented immigrants an invasion is just extreme and unproductive, I understand the sentiment of not wanting undocumented people in the country. More people mean more resources needed, more resources mean more money and blah blah blah. In the case with the US, Trump asserted that he would carry out mass deportations to (what sounds like) ‘cleanse’ the nation of undocumented immigrants. They apparently steal jobs, take what the true American citizen needs and make an absolute mess of taxation somehow.
Deportations are already barbaric, and to proudly support it on a mass scale is insane. Immigration has been proven to be good for the economy and yes, illegal immigration is illegal and you’d rather have them engage it in a more official manner, but if someone decides that it’s worth taking the risk of cross a border or an ocean in hopes to get a better life for themselves, it seems somewhat cruel for them to be bounced right back to their origin country. This can include asylum seekers that didn’t get cleared by the government, or refugees from war. For the President-elect of the same country asserts his iron fist to expel everyone without an American citizenship from their country.
Trump’s reasoning to his mass deportation plan is to stop the drugs wrecking the nation any further as well as to quench the murders happening by said illegal immigrants. Even if this is true, it’s more than unfair to deport all undocumented immigrants because of the actions of the few.
Photo by Malte Schmidt on Unsplash
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