Fear Itself
I have a friend that I used to work with who immigrated to the U.S. from India in 1980. She became a US citizen about a decade later, 35 years ago.
My friend has brown skin , and still talks with a slight Indian accent.
She told me in a text yesterday that she is afraid to be on the streets of Chicago right now because she heard ICE is arresting people who are not white.
Are the chances she would be arrested on the street very high? I doubt it, they are probably extremely slight, she would have to be in the wrong place at the wrong time , in other words in a location where ICE was roaming on streets looking for people who appear to be foreign born. Unfortunately the official who is in charge of the ICE operation in Chicago SAID a couple days ago that how people look is being used as one of the criteria for arrest.
There are photos and videos of uniformed Border Patrol and ICE agents walking down downtown streets in Chicago. They are not on an operation to find and arrest specific individuals, they are looking for people who may appear to be the types of people who are undocumented.
Its like you throw out a net and see how many specific type of fish you can catch, and when you pull the net in and you have a few of that type, but you also have others that are not that type. The fish you dont want are also caught up in the net and all those innocent fish are just as afraid of being captured by the net as the ones who are being fished for.
Every day in America now there are people who are afraid they will be mistakenly arrested as an illegal immigrant, and have to go through the ordeal of being brought to a processing center and spend hours if not days gaining the right to go home.
My friend, and countless other people have done nothing to deserve this dehumanizing and dangerous treatment.
The thing they have to fear is fear of their government.
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Arresting criminals or even known illegals who are not criminal will not achieve Miller's goals. They need to throw out nets and catch all the fish they can, and afterwards release the ones they do not want.
You know who else rounded up people for how they looked?
Dwight D. Eisenhower.........."Operation Wetback".
Fear is a choice.
One of the most destructive ideas of the last 30 years is the idea that anytime someone is afraid, the person they choose to fear is wrong or evil.