So I've been hearing all day about the hundreds of people rounded up by ICE,
all over the country, but with a large number, I think 600, in California. I
heard it on the Pacifica News podcast this morning and on the Democracy Now
podcast and, perhaps on the Intercepted podcast. And I read about it. All
these people, working people, family members, undocumented, one of them a
beneficiary of Obama's policy protecting children of undocumented parents
who are living here. Then I went down to get the mail and the mailman was
telling two other people that he'd heard that 5,000 criminal immigrants with
guns had been rounded up in California. He was in an adjoining room when he
was telling this fable. When he returned to the mailboxes, I couldn't keep
quiet. I just calmly said that I'd been reading about this all day and I
think it was just 600 people with no documents and no guns who'd been
rounded up in California. Of course, he didn't even bother answering because
why should he believe an old blind woman who probably didn't know what day
it is? This is how Tsrump got elected and how Fascists will take over in the
next few months. One of the articles from Truthdig that I couldn't post was
about a history professor who says we just have a few months to resist, or
our democracy will be gone. He cites similarities to the 1930's.
Miriam