Untermenschen and animals

Sun., May 27, 2018

Untermenschen (subhumans) is a term the Nazis used to describe non-Aryan “inferior people” - often referred to as “the masses from the east,” that is Jews, Roma and Slavs.

Substitute the word “animals,” the terms “rapists and criminals,” the phrase “masses from the South,” and Mexicans and Central Americans, and you have Donald Trump’s opinion of undocumented immigrants.

Administration plans to separate undocumented children from their parents fall in line with this belief that they are lesser beings not worthy of simple human decency. Is the roundup of DACA children and their forced relocation into camps while awaiting “transport” to the south this administration’s next step?

Kirk Jackson

Spokane

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