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Why Trump’s New Immigration Laws Are Outrageously Racist
As the impeachment saga plays out, with the full assurance that the Cult of Donald Trump will swoop in and save the day, for a criminalized administration that pledges allegiance to the rulebook of white supremacy, some of us are seriously grappling with another national emergency.
A few days ago, the suspicious announcement of an extended travel ban aimed at adding more non-white nations to the established list of territories that conveniently boast a Muslim-majority hit too close home.
That’s because unsurprisingly, my home country of Nigeria has been mentioned as a potential contender for the ongoing mission of keeping out Black and Brown immigrants from threatening the purity of whiteness in America.
The other countries that are at risk of permanent banishment are: “Belarus, Myanmar (also known as Burma), Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania.”
Trump infamously expressed his disdain for “shithole” countries in the early days of his presidency, and even though he casually denied he said those words after they leaked out, we readily assumed he did, based on how he triumphantly claimed the presidency after running a deplorably offensive campaign.
Candidate Trump understood what needed to be done, even before he secured the nomination…
