Issues Under Fire: Why Dreamers Never Should've Trusted America, Welcome to Their Nightmare
It's official. The Dreamers' dream of being accepted by America has been shattered. Congress debated, voted and walked away. In one of the cruelest acts of inhumanity, the United States led hundreds of thousands to believe they had a chance, (albeit small) to be an America citizen one day. The United States gave Dreamers the false hope that one day they'd be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin or the country from whence they came. Sadly, the most heartbreaking of all is how the Dreamers watched that hope die in slow motion. And the fact that Congress knew the outcome of their actions long ago only adds insult to injury.
Still, the Dreamers and their families should've known. After all, this is America. If they'd studied American history, they would have understood how the United States feel about people of color. Generally speaking, non-Whites in the United States are valued less. Their lives don't matter as much if they matter at all. If Dreamers fully understood how America's native people were massacred mercilessly, robbed of their lands and placed on reservations in their own country, they would've had a clue. If Dreamers were even remotely aware of America's Black History they would've been forewarned.
To think a nation with such a brutal history towards anyone non-White would extend compassion and humanity beyond its own, was naive thinking at best. A nation with a history of slavery, Jim Crow, the KKK, White supremacy, and colonialism, is unlikely to ever offer a pathway to citizenship to millions of non-Whites without a knockdown, drag-out fight. If African-Americans and America's native people could've been deported they would've been ages ago. Somehow, White America has convinced itself God gave them this country and they intend to keep it as White as possible. If a non-White has a skill or talent that can be exploited, they'll be tolerated (for a while), but all others need not apply.
If Dreamers took a moment to consider America's history of colonizing indigenous people by brute force, coercion, corruption or a combination thereof, they would've realized America only colonized spaces where people of color lived. One would be hard-pressed to find any White people's land America annexed for the sole purpose of raping it for its natural resources and slave labor. From the Hawaiian Islands to the Caribbean, the day White America discovered the riches of white sands, blue skies and warm waters, the fates of the people who called those spaces home were doomed. No matter how you cut it, the Dreamers should've known America could not be trusted. But on the other hand, the undocumented shouldn't be blamed for their blind faith.
Those who understand why illegal immigrants came to this country and why they try so desperately to stay are compelled to cut them some slack. In the majority of cases, these people were escaping the terror of drug cartels, violent gangs wars, corrupt governments, abject poverty, and hopelessness. Many had no choice but to immigrate illegally if they wanted to live. Compared to their circumstance, surviving in the shadows as third-class citizens, working for slave wages with the slim chance for change someday, was better than certain death. So, when they came, they stayed out of sight and stayed out of trouble, all the while hoping for their American dream to come true. Unfortunately, this is America.
Bottom line: So, what now? From Africans to Asians and everybody in between, if you're here illegally, it's - times up. For all intents and purposes, the nation will move on, as will the media's coverage. Save for a few federal courts temporarily blocking Donald Trump's measures to ensure America's Whiteness for as long as possible, the arrests, detentions, and deportations will escalate exponentially. Only, that dark activity will go on in the background unseen and unabated. The optics of children being pried from their mother's embrace by ICE agents wouldn't look good for the American brand. Perhaps, someday people of conscience will look back on this event with a sense of shame and regret, but if history is any judge, Americans won't. Podcast below.
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