Cause and Effect I: What Will you Do? (Mass Deportation)

[Note to Readers: This is the first in an occasional series of very short posts about the consequences of Donald Trump’s stated priority policies.]

What will you do when the Deportation Troops come to take away your neighbor? your friend? your employee, gardener, cook, nurse, housekeeper, elder-care worker, day-care worker, medical assistant or farm worker?

How will you feel as you watch them being rounded up and taken away: men, women, children, toddlers, and infants, whose only “crime” is seeking a better life?

Will you stand idly by? Will you hide them as Christian Germans did Jewish Anne Frank from the Gestapo? if so, where? in your attic (like Frank)? in your basement, shed, spare bedroom, guest house, closet?

Will you resist? Will you sue? Will you fight? Will you take up arms?

And if you do nothing, how will you get the work done after they are gone? Will you do it all yourself?

Can you expect to pay the same wages after twelve million undocumented workers have been deported, in a time of record high employment? Have you heard that the law of supply and demand applies to wages, as much as to the prices of goods? Might prices for everything rise hard?

The time to consider these questions is now, not when you hear the siren or the knock on the door, or see the dreary troop carriers and prison vans driving down the street outside your home. If you don’t like the answers, maybe you should help GOTV.


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