The dynamics of seasonal migration of many of the Planet’s natural inhabitants are eternal, predictable, and constitute an empirically accepted phenomenon. The filmed sight of wildebeasts kicking up clouds of dust on their ardous way to seasonal sources of water, spectacular undulating waves of blackbirds on their way to southern climes, hump-back whales traveling vast distances to find a mate, reindeer (caribou) migrating up to 3,000 miles, sockeye salmon swimming more than 1,000 miles, and an additional plethora of the planet’s natural species, predictably moving to distant climes for survival and reproduction are a “given” in the eternal planetary geometry,
By contrast, the immigration of the human species for purposes of survival or the prospect of an acceptable life is, beset with barriers imposed by plain bigotry or selfishness, empirically attributable to right-wing (MAGA) adherents of Donald Trump. The existential migration of the birds and beasts is accepted, even idolized, yet the immigration of desperate humanity, by contrast, is vehemently opposed by reductionist bigotry and perverse politics; dissonantly, in a Nation populated by former immigrants and their progeny. Like other phobias, xenophobia is not rational or, if minimally rational, amounts to selfish and immoral prejudice
Yet it is undeniable that a sizeable population of Americans, notably, inclusive of the cult-like lemmings who accord religious homage to Donald Trump, appear to be guiltless, in fact, pseudo-patriotic in their reductive lack of humanistic empathy. The welcoming tradition, admirably articulated by the totrch-holding Statue of Liberty prominently standing in New York’s East River, welcoming Emily Lazarus” huddled and frightened masses,” has been debased in a paranoidal scheme to avoid the replacement of acceptable American citizens with foreign terrorists and despicable national rejects; in fact, the contextually perverse parties are the xenophobic miscreants and not the oppressed immigrant, the latter, merely seeking an acceptable life for themdselves and therir families.
The inhuman treatment of needy and vulnerable refugees, desperately seeking the Nation’s traditional offer of compassionate refuge traditionally accorded by our Nation has, with the authorization, financial support, and the encouragement of the extant and excreble President, Donald J. Trump, been denigrated and unjustly criminalized. The Nation’s unprincipled Chief Executive has authorized and directed a dystopian, masked, Gestapo-like organization to compliantly torture, imprison, and banish to foreign torture prisons, “illegal” immigrants (officially identified by their tan -colored skin and Hispanic vocabulary) without just cause or due process. A reign of terror, amounting to a modern, Nazi-style “Kristallnacht, has been nightmarishly reprised in our Democratic Republic.
Migrating animals and birds are solicitously afforded the appropriate sympathetic protection of groups such as the ASPCA, the Wildlife Fund, and the Sierra Club. By shameful contrast, needy and vulnerable human migrants have few such dedicated champions.
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