Letter to the editor: How will deportations help us?

Tribune-Review | Monday, November 25, 2024 7:00 a.m.

I’m wondering exactly how deporting millions of undocumented people living in America is going to personally benefit me.

I never believed the lie told by Donald Trump and others of that ilk that Haitians are stealing and eating family pets. Nor do I understand how sending them back to their homelands will make my life better. I’m not a pet owner.

I’m wondering how deporting those brown-skinned workers who cleaned my room and prepared and served my meals while I was traveling will work to my advantage.

Knowing that many of those marked for deportation are likely to include field workers who do the back-breaking labor that puts fruits and vegetables on my table has me concerned. While occasionally missing a few meals probably wouldn’t harm me, I do wonder who will replace those toilers, identified years ago as food chain victims in the documentary film “Harvest of Shame.” Will food prices increase as a result of a labor shortage?

What of those employed in service industries already at or near the bottom rungs of our economic ladder? Do we have a population anxious to take those jobs?

It can’t be that the plans to deport millions of people has anything to do with skin color … or can it? Please don’t tell me that this just might be part of a desire and hope of those wishing to Make America White Again. Nah!

Glenn Plummer

Unity