I read that Trump is going to enlist 10,000 new officers for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to implement his vast (2-3 million?) program of abduction and deportation. It is reported that he has boasted that this will be the largest deportation in history, but Hitler, Stalin, Talaat Pasha, and many other despots might dispute his claim, for mass deportation is a common practice of tyrants. I don’t know how Trump plans to transport all these people. The American railroad system hasn’t enough cattle cars to accommodate numbers like these. Perhaps they will simply round up immigrants and march them out of the country.

How will the people of America react to this brutality? Will we watch in silence, some even with approval, as the peoples of Europe watched and even abetted the disappearance of Jews from their societies? Will we be silent while Trump & Co. make the United States a rogue nation? Or will we be authentic Americans and resist this criminal regime?

Thy mandates make heroes assemble,
when Liberty’s form stands in view;
thy banners make tyranny tremble,
when borne by the red, white, and blue.