Our struggle is not only for immigration reform, our struggle is for equality
The threat from the candidacy of Donald Trump comes at a time when undocumented immigrants are in the most vulnerable and precarious situation since 2005.
They face the most aggressive persecution of the Obama administration in eight years, as evidenced by the crisis of migrant children and the recent ICE raids and deportations — at a time when the border has moved south to the Guatemalan border with the complicity of the Mexican government. The Trump threat is real. He has unleashed a raging monster of hatred that finds us unorganized and unarmed, with very few having the right to vote. Meanwhile, groups like the KKK arm themselves with bullets and knives.
Trump is not alone. Other economic, political, and ideological interests support him, together with international accomplices who openly show their support while others remain in despicable silence.
They are the same interests that managed the privatization of Mexico’s energy resources; the coup d’etat in Honduras; the mass incarceration of African-Americans, Latinos, and immigrants in the U.S.; the criminal bombings in the Middle East; and the arrest and deportation of migrant children.
The same stakeholders who silently support Trump want to impose their official candidate on us — Hillary Clinton. But Clinton is not our choice. She is not reliable or worthy of our vote. In the primaries Latinos are voting mainly for Bernie Sanders.
Mexicans Without Borders, migrants, and our organizations have already faced Trumpista fascism.
Today, migrants remain hostages of political-economic electoral interests. We are the scapegoats — or rather the sacrificial victims — of failed neoliberalism and its beasts.
Our struggle is not only for immigration reform, our struggle is for equality.
Ten years after the mega-marches, unity is calling us.
