If you are like me, you do not need any more reasons to vote for President Trump. But if you aren’t like me, let me give you another reason. The illegal immigrants in Massachusetts are afraid they will be deported back to their home country if Trump wins in November. They do not have the same fear if a Democrat gets elected. The Boston Globe ran a story sympathetic to the plight of one such illegal alien.
The illegal immigrant and her daughter live in the emergency shelter at the former Chelsea Soldiers’ Home. She is not paying her own way, you are. Now multiply the cost of supporting her by $10 million. She is not technically illegal since Biden gave all Haitians temporary status for 18 months, but that period ends before Trump returns to office. That is a lot of money. And when they kill someone or commit some other kind of crime, you could pay a different kind of cost. Maybe the life of someone you love or possibly yourself.
From her room in the emergency shelter at the former Chelsea Soldiers’ Home, Stephanie Jean has been watching news clips on TikTok with a rising sense of dread: What will happen to her and her 4-year-old daughter, Cricia, if former president Donald Trump is elected in November?
Last week, as the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee seethed with anti-immigrant rhetoric, Jean, a migrant from Haiti, continued her frantic search for a lawyer. As a Haitian who fled violence in her home country, she has temporary permission to be in the United States, but it is set to expire in less than two years. She is determined to apply for a longer-term form of immigration relief; becoming undocumented, she said, is “a huge fear.”
“If we are deported to Haiti, we will die,” said Jean, 29.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELAt the moment, Stephanie Jean isn’t technically in the country illegally. She was one of the huge group of migrants who arrived here without permission from Haiti but was given Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by Biden, shielding her from deportation for 18 months. But that status will expire before Trump takes office. Trump has already suggested that he will severely scale back or even cancel the TPS policy and may even rescind it for some of the migrants that Biden welcomed in. If that’s the case, Ms. Jean will be fair game for the mass deportation program.
The Boston Globe was obviously trying to find one of the most sympathetic figures they could for their feature story, painting her as an innocent victim and Trump as a dangerous, bigoted threat to all migrants. She has a baby. She relies on public services to get by. I get it. She’s afraid that if she is sent back to Haiti she will die. (Given the state of that bedraggled nation at the moment, it’s not an unjustified fear, particularly with the major cities being run by gang leaders such as Barbeque and his cannibal friends.)
But that doesn’t mean that everyone gets to automatically stay here permanently and live off of public services for free. Terrible things happen in many terrible countries all of the time. We can’t just accept everyone from Haiti and set them up for life. And we certainly can’t accept everyone from all around the world who has been flooding across our borders. The system is already collapsing before our eyes. Most of these people are simply going to have to be removed.
For people like Stephanie Jean who come from the worst of the worst places, they don’t necessarily have to go back home to Haiti. Has she considered going to Canada? They still have fairly liberal policies in place despite the current resurgence of the conservatives. They also have free, taxpayer-funded healthcare, such as it is. Sure, it’s a bit cooler there in the winter, but it’s still better than Haiti. The point is that you can’t just stay here. If we begin making exceptions for people like her, nobody will wind up leaving. If Trump wins, the deportation train is on the way and it’s long overdue. So if the illegal migrants in Boston are going into a panic, there’s a good reason for that. Save both yourself and the rest of us the trouble and move on now. As they say in the bars at closing time, you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.
