America sours on Trump's immigration policies in new poll. The fallout to Milwaukee's resistance of ICE's overreaching invasion is spreading nationally and impacts Trump's approval rating. The legalism approach as a basis for argumentation, like NO Kings advocating on behalf of keeping and supporting our Constitutional democracy, has been joined by those with moral outrage that human beings, regardless of legal status or race, are treated this way. The fear that all immigrants are somehow criminals has been replaced by the word "neighbor," and its meaning in biblical terms is as defined by the words of Jesus.
Yes, if polled, most Americans approve of deporting illegal migrant violent criminals, but that is not what is happening. In ICE's dragnet approach, there are far more innocent victims of their violent techniques. Yes, No Kings still has great significance and protections in the amendments of the Constitution that need to be respected and upheld. Moral outrage is becoming even more significant as the stories emerge of the treatment, the denial of civil and human rights, the warehousing of thousands of children and adults, disappeared with no recourse, no sunlight, into a chain of concentration camps. These are echoes of what we know and see as evil, the Japanese internment in WWII, or Russia throughout history, the gulag archipelago. Cruelty is not a humane value nor an American one.
Note, too, while polls reflect attitudes of a wide cross-section of Americans, these protests are mostly by white participants. The demographic profile of protestors seen on TV is significant. The street demonstrations (big one scheduled in Chicago today led by the Catholic church on Ash Wednesday) are by, yes, mostly white people on behalf of brown and black people, risking to die for them, as two did, and still speak out against ICE trying to intimidate them as they photo and blow their whistles..New Filings Detail Harrowing Accounts of ICE and In this current atmosphere, black and brown people keep a low public profile, especially brown people racially profiled by ICE and persecuted for just being brown, or without documents and with documents, so terror keeps them hidden.
For those who still harbor racism in their souls, or white nationalism /or white supremacy, these polls must come as a shock, especially if they only listen to friends restricted to those they know who already agree with them, or only get their news and information from social media and TV media that cater to their preferred political beliefs and prejudices.
