Donald Trump has made it very clear, again and again, his contempt for immigrants. And this February 14, day of love and friendship, his administration has transmitted it again, this time in the form of a poem. The White House a Valentine’s Card in which the following verses are read: “The roses are red / the blue violets / come here illegally and we will deport you.” The faces of the president and his border tsar also appear, on a pink background with red hearts.
Trump’s decision to publish the controversial poem has unleashed a wave of criticism in social networks. Users have expressed their outrage, crossing out the poem of “disgusting”, “evil” or “insane.” “I am very happy that we have a white house with humor. Who needs food when we can laugh all day? ”Has a user written sarcastically, referring to what.
The Hispanic Caucus of Congress in a more serious tone and directing the President directly: “You may not take your work seriously, but we do. Their deportations are inhuman, they are ending the American economy and are separating our families. ”
At the same time, for the republican supporters the text has become in another meme. “Bravo”, “I love it”, “This Valentine’s Day, nothing says ‘I love you’ to keep your loved ones safe from criminals, Venezuelan gang members and cartels!”, They are some of the answers they have left. The United States Embassy in Mexico has gone further and has republished the poem with its own message: “Love knows no borders… but the United States does. #Nilointers ”.
The cruel poem – which will now be part of the American government archive, as everything published by the Trump administration in its official social media accounts – makes light of the president’s mass deportation agenda. A policy that threatens to tear whole families and communities.
Since Trump assumed the position, just under a month ago, his administration has arrested more than 8,000 people in immigration operations, according to the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt said last week. Hundreds have already been expelled from the country, others are held in federal prisons and some in the Naval Base of Guantanamo in Cuba ,.
But both Trump and Homan have shown their frustration for the amount of arrests and deportations that have been carried out so far. Both, and fast. Already last month Caleb Vitello, acting director of the United States Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE), informed the agency officials that each of the 25 ICE field offices should carry out 75 arrests per day, which means a total of between 1,200 and 1,500 throughout the country. A quota that Stephen Miller, attached chief of the White House cabinet, has previously described as a “soil, not a roof.”
