Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans continue their cruelty campaign against innocent immigrants: Senator Alex Padilla STRONG!

Senator Alex Padilla endured dehumanizing treatment opinion letter to the Santa Cruz Sentinel in California: 

Dear Senator Alex Padilla,

I would like to extend my gratitude for your speaking up against ICE (Immigration and Customs) deportations at the Department of Homeland Security meeting last month with Kristi Noem. I was utterly appalled by the sight of a U.S. senator being roughed up and handcuffed just because you asked a question.

As a fellow person of color, you must realize the ugly truth of racism that underlies this outrageous action: racism against brown people (the darker the worse generally) within a structure of white supremacist imperialism that plagues our lives.

Brown people from Baja to Gaza are victims of colonialism. Hardworking brown folks, undocumented Latino immigrants who represent the undersalaried essential workers of our food and health systems, must juggle imprisonment in their homes with the need to work (for living expenses) with its attendant risk of being swept up by ICE agents (masked like the evil hooded Ku Klux Klan) to horrible detention centers. They are living in uncertain precarity under conditions of occupation.

Another brown people, oppressed by Israel, which the U.S. seems to consider as a 51st state, are the Palestinians, who have been living under conditions of occupation, dispossession, five wars since 1967, this current one aiming to annihilate or expel them, God knows where.

With the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear sites extending the war into the broader Middle East region, the Palestinians, in their 100-year struggle for freedom and rights to their indigenous land against Israeli occupation, seem to be forgotten. Senator Padilla, with your recent experience of being stripped of human dignity, you might feel a sense of the complete loss of dignity, the invisibility, and powerlessness that Palestinians have endured for a century.