For now, we must leave both presidents out of the calculus because their continued acknowledgement will certainly taint the canvas. Before Trump, there was Obama and he gave birth to a still born baby named DACA an acronym for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,an American immigration policy that allowed some individuals who entered the country as minors, and had remained in the country illegally, to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and to be eligible for a work permit.
There are currently 800,000 people presently protected by this program - at least until March 2018- when Trump may sign it off, and render children who were hitherto protected by this draft to start paying for the sins of their parents for bringing them into United States. Deportation appears imminent.
The logical premise is that the United States can no longer afford the resources needed to fund the project and other basis shut it down. But the president declaration that he will rather have blue eyes, blond hair immigrants from Norway than blacks from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries defeated the first assumption. And that I can understand. Norway is the richest per capital income in the world and if you want to adopt a baby, you want to pick a healthy one. The problem however is that the rich do not abandon their babies for adoption! Norwegians are probably rolling their eyes and wondering what they want to go and do in “shithole America”.
In company of some top patriotic professionals under the aegies of Buhari Good Governance Initiative( BGGI), we ran a selfless campaign that brought Buhari to victory years ago, and it is disconcerting to see a subdued racism being played as an x factor in the political equation of Nigeria politics.I have exhaustively wrote about the federal government evasiveness in dealing with the arrogant expansionism policy of the Fulanis herdsmen in the past and will not broach it again. Suffice to say that the words of Wole Soyinka,“How do we assess a mental state that cannot distinguish between a stolen cow – which is always recoverable – and human life, which is not” is enough to close this brewing insurgency.
My reaction to racism jibes here, is that there are functional federal institutions that cannot be compromised by dysfunctional individual(s), no matter highly placed. I was wrong. Right under the statue of liberty, we are beginning to see brittle institutions designed to protect the weak from the “shithole countries” crumbling under the forces of hatred and bigotry.
It is equally exhausting to see my consolation of the fact that I have a backup country full of huts also in smouldering flames, as tribalism ignites the very flammable fabric of our national unity. Mind you, racism and tribalism are not antonym-just like both presidents: They are synonymous. Leave them out!
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