The Trump Family Business Administration's nativist drive against immigrants and Latinos

Trump used his first week in office to brand Latinos immigrants a violent danger to the national security of Americans and to rapidly escalate a diplomatic confrontation with Mexico.

What Trump's wall means for U.S. relations with Mexico PBS Newshour 01/26/2017:

How Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto handles relations with the US under Trump will be an interesting and important process to watch: Enrique Peña Nieto cancela reunión con Donald Trump La Opinión 26.01.2017

Maribel Hastings of America’s Voice, warns that Trump's anti-immigrant measures are creating a serious climate of fear, which of course Trumpists are fine with - as long as it's directed against someone but themselves, of course (La Gran Muralla de Trump inaugura su reino de terror La Opinión 25.01.2017). She rightly observes that Trump is playing to "sector más nativista de los votantes" ("the most nativist sector of the voters").

Matthew Yglesias and Dara Lind provide some background documents on Trump's nativist anti-immigrant and anti-Latino drive in Read leaked drafts of 4 White House executive orders on Muslim ban, end to DREAMer program, and more Apparent Trump administration drafts suggest a harsh crackdown on immigrants. Vox 01/25/2017.

When Trump and his supporters talks about "criminal aliens," it's safe to assume that that they include the "crime" of staying in the US without immigration documents - technically a misdemeanor. In other words, any Latino could be a target of accusation of being a "criminal alien."

Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur on The Young Turks today pointed out that increases in detentions of Latinos under Trump's nativist policies provide profit for the private prison industry, whose stock has been doing well since Trump's election. Private Prisons LOVE Trump’s Immigration Plans 01/26/2017:

See also:

María Peña, Punto por punto, las claves de las órdenes de Trump contra los inmigrantes indocumentados La Opinión 26.01.2017 25.01.2017

Editorial: Las 9 razones (por ahora) que retrasarían el muro de Trump La Opinión 26.01.2017


El TLCAN tiembla, el muro va; tocan remesas ¿Qué hará Peña Nieto? La Opinión 26.01.2017

Rosa Elvira Vargas, Cancela Peña visita a Trump La Journada 26.01.2017

Alma Muñoz, Respaldan políticos a Peña por cancelar viaje La Jornada 26.01.2017

Ron Paul gobsmacks Justin Raimondo

Even Justin Raimondo, a proud Old Right isolationist, Editorial Director of the Antiwar.com site and a columnist who praises Ron Paul regularly, even he has decided to take the candidate to task for his rightwing nativism, in Ron Paul’s Disgraceful Ad 12/29/07 Antiwar.com. He accuses the ad of "pandering to the worst, Tom Tancredo-esque paranoia and outright ignorance".

Tags: authoritarianism, isolationism, justin raimondo, nativism, ron paul

Chuckie Watch 7: Chuckie vs. single mothers

CHARLIE DANIELS must have mood swings or something. He'll post a few fairly mellow or inocuous posts in a laid-back "long haired country boy" mood. Then he'll be raging like a John Bircher who's just found out his daughter's marrying a Communist. Chuckie's latest, "Social Shenanigans", is complaining about welfare. He ends up blaming it all on immigrants, somehow, I'm not quite sure how. But we already know that Chuckie don't much like immigrants. But the main thing that's worrying Chuckie's Christian conscience is loose women:

And you've also heard the stories about the welfare mothers who have five different children by five different men and turns them out on the street to run wild and end up in jail by the time they're teenagers and she gets a welfare allowance for each one of them.

But I don't think Chuckie is worried about hiring more auditors at the social services department:

They [politicians who support welfare] encourage the very things which corrode the fabric of society. Teenaged mothers, out of wedlock birth, children who grow up wild on the street without parental guidance or nurturing and eventually end up behind bars or lying in a pool of blood in some intercity back alley.

So according to Chuckie, real men don't want their tax money being spent on feedin' no children. What kind of wuss would support something like that? Real men want those little bastard babies to go hungry to teach their mommas some decent morals. Real men want their taxes to go to Halliburton and Bechtel.

I don't know how we Americans got so far off into goofball thinking that someone could even imagine that this kind of rant would appeal to anyone but half-senile White Citizens Council members. The European Union countries all provide considerable basic assistance to new mothers, on the very sound notion that it's in society's general interest to make sure babies get adequate food and clothing. And by any measurable standard of sexual morality, they certainly are no worse off than the United States.

And, for some odd reason, not even the conservative parties in Europe complain that feeding children is undermining the morals of their mothers.

Tags: charlie daniels, chuckie, chuckie watch, immigration, nativism