Trump: Racism and Extreme Xenophobia

Published in Diario Co Latino
(El Salvador) on 8 September 2017
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Translated from by Tristan Harper. Edited by Laurence Bouvard.
This week, President Donald Trump carried out his threat to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program which was protecting some 800,000 foreigners – mainly Mexicans and Central Americans – from being deported.

The program, initiated during the Obama administration, allowed young people who had arrived in the United States as small children, brought by parents fleeing violence and lack of work in their home countries, to study or work.

The neo-fascist leader pledged to do this in his election campaign in order to secure the votes of white racists and xenophobes. He also promised to build a wall on the border with Mexico to stem the flow of immigrants, an affront he appears equally prepared to carry out.

A few weeks ago, Trump offered words of support to groups of white supremacists, heirs to the Ku Klux Klan – advocates of racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, anti-Catholicism and anti-communism for over a century.

The reversal of DACA, however, has been rejected by state authorities who will challenge the decision in the courts, and by large sections of society who will put pressure on Congress to legalize the status of the 800,000 young people. Trump’s follies should provoke widespread protest for comprehensive immigration reform.

The pro-immigrant protests must also call for Trump’s resignation or removal from office. The racist and xenophobic head of state is a threat to immigrants, to the American people and to the entire world.

Trump’s war-mongering urges have put the world on tenterhooks, and represent the gravest danger to the continued existence of humanity. The U.S. president’s sinister threats have indeed provoked other nuclear threats, like that from North Korea.

Today, more than ever, all governments and people of the world, especially Latin Americans, who care for the preservation of life on this planet need to renounce this neo-fascist occupant of the White House.

El Salvador must take a tough stance on Trump’s affronts to immigrants. Until now, its position has been halfhearted. The communiqué on the DACA reversal from the El Salvador Department of State doesn’t condemn the decision, but only clarifies that deportation would not be immediate, and announces that it will lobby the United States Congress.



Trump: racismo y xenofobia extrema

El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump cumplió esta semana su amenaza de revertir la Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA, por sus siglas en inglés) que protegía de la deportación a unos 800 mil extranjeros, sobre todo mexicanos y centroamericanos.

El programa -instaurado durante el gobierno de Barack Obama- permitía estudiar o trabajar a jóvenes que llegaron pequeños a Estados Unidos, llevados por su padres que huían de la violencia y el desempleo en sus países.

El gobernante neofacista lo prometió en su campaña electoral para conseguir el voto de los blancos racistas y xenófobos. También prometió construir un muro en la frontera con México para evitar el paso de migrantes, aberración que parece igualmente dispuesto a cumplir.

Hace unas semanas Trump dio declaraciones de apoyo a grupos de supremacistas blancos herederos del Ku Klux Klan que promovió el racismo, el antisemitismo, la xenofobia, el anticatolicismo y el anticomunismo durante más de un siglo.

Sin embargo, la reversión del DACA es rechazada por autoridades estatales que la impugnarán en tribunales y de amplios sectores que presionarán al Congreso para regularizar a los 800 mil jóvenes. Las estupideces de Trump deberían provocar una gran movilización por una reforma migratoria integral.

Las movilizaciones pro migrantes también deben exigir la renuncia o destitución de Donald Trump. El mandatario racista y xenófobo es una amenaza para los migrantes, para el pueblo estadounidense y para el mundo entero.

La vocación guerrerista de Trump tiene al mundo en vilo y constituye el peor peligro para la existencia de la humanidad. Las tenebrosas amenazas del presidente estadounidense, incluso, han provocado otras amenazas nucleares como la que representa Corea del Norte.

Hoy más que nunca, es necesario que todos los gobiernos y pueblos de mundo -que quieran preservar la vida en el planeta- expresen su repudio al inquilino neofacista de la Casa Blanca, especialmente los latinoamericanos.

El Salvador debe asumir una postura firme ante los atropellos de Trump contra los migrantes. Hasta hoy, la posición es tibia: el comunicado de Cancillería sobre la reversión del DACA no expresa una condena, sólo aclara que no es deportación inmediata y anuncia que gestionará ante el congreso estadounidense.
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