For the majority pf my teaching career I had many children of immigrants in my classes. These kids worked very hard not only in school, but many had demanding jobs when the school day ended.
My job was to teach them and, where necessary, offer guidance so they could be successful in life.
These kid had spent their lives in the United States, and many just assumed they were born here. Those who were brought here by undocumented parents only learned they were not citizens when applying to colleges and seeking loans and grants found they and their parents were missing some important papers.
A child under four does not make a conscious decision to break any laws and sneak into this country.
They grew up doing everything in the book to be the Americans they thought they were.
Now Donald Trump is considering using them as tools in his needing to be loved by the minority of citizens here by doing away with the Dream Act. He is thinking of using them to bolster his own self esteem.
He is not content with being cheered at his rallies and making outrageous promises that his supporters believe. Now. he wants to use children and young adults for his own aggrandizement.
He is a bully using his power against children and young adults. He feels strongest when picking on weaker people. And, he will do it by milking bigotry, a bigotry he fed so it would grow.
He has no shame.
Man-Children seldom do.
These are cartoons I have done in the past when the GOP routinely brought up proposals to send children back to countries they do not know, away from a country and friends they do in order to punish them for the “crimes” of their parent.
Those ideas were wrong then, and they are wrong now.
This man boy has no shame
.