Commentary
By Juan Bueno (Writer/Director) & Rebecca Bueno (Filmmaker)
What The Donald thought was his trump card turned out to be a deuce. Poor pitiful billionaire, he so perfectly fits Oscar Wilde’s description of those who know “the price of everything and the value of nothing.” His recent ant-immigrant remarks, in which his syntax as well as his factual accuracy were sacrificed in a confusing roar akin to that of a flushing toilet, are not fit for a man aspiring to fill the most powerful office in the world . Mr. Trump soiled his pricey shoes when he stepped and slipped on his own filthy diatribe.
“They are not sending their best”, – he clamors. Who are the “best” according to his gilded, skewed reasoning? “The ruling “upper classes” who own condos in Miami and shop on Rodeo Drive? From this notion are we to infer that all those who cross the border without the proper documentation are all drug dealers, criminals and rapists? Therefore the worst!
Yet, “some” – he generously assumes, – “are good people”. How magnanimous! How noble of him to assume that “some”, not the vast majority, not the tireless hordes of skilled, energetic men and women who are the very salt of the earth, “some”, are good people! Are we to “assume” therefore that “some” of the millions of Europeans who landed on Ellis Island were “good people”? Not all, just “some”.
People migrate out of necessity. Adversity drives migration. And it takes as much valor to cross a desert as it does to cross an ocean.
Who are the majority of these “illegal aliens” being ‘sent’ here Mr. Trump? The gardeners who tend to your golf courses? The laborers who erect your shopping centers? The underpaid drudges who clean your casinos? Or are you referring to the humble hands that bring food to our tables only to be repaid by being forced to hide in shadows for fear of the law? Thank you, Jesús!
To put it in the only terms that Mr. Trump seems to understand; recently, due to a technical flaw, for ten days in June the State Department was unable to issue H2 visas to a thousand Mexican field-hands stranded at the border. This resulted in millions of dollars in losses for the states of California, Washington and Michigan; millions of dollars!
Next time Mr. Trump takes a generous slice of the American apple pie, as he so proficiently knows how to do, perhaps he should reflect on the worth of the hand that picked that fruit.
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