Trumps VOICE Is About Justifying White Supremacy

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

While most of the media is jumping hand-over-foot to praise President Donald Trump for successfully reading from a teleprompter, those of us living in immigrant communities are facing a very different reality.

Last night, while speaking in vague generalities about his immigration plans, President Trump announced a new federal program called VOICE, an acronym that stands for Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement. The stated purpose of the agency is to publish and promote information about crimes committed by immigrants.

While details are still scarce, it does not appear that the program will be limited simply to undocumented immigrants, but will also include crimes committed by legitimate VISA holders, Green Card holders and possibly even permanent residents who are not naturalized citizens.

Let’s call this what it is: VOICE is racist government propaganda. It also is an idea right out of the playbook of Trump’s top political adviser, Steve Bannon, whose website, Breitbart, infamously had a section called Black Crime.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58b6dfc9e4b0e5fdf619791d

[leftstreet]

1. Can an undocumented victim of an undocumented perp be on the list?

What a bunch of white supremacy horseshit

[virgogal]

2. This isn't racist----it's xenophobic. Not about race or white supremacy at all.

Most recent immigrants ARE Caucasian.

[bettyellen]

3. It can be both- but since DT is always talking about Mexican rapists, Islamic terrorists

And "urban" criminals it's pretty obvious what type of fear is being mongered here. It's plenty racist.

[virgogal]

7. I didn't see urban criminals mentioned,just immigrants----and white supremacy.

Most immigrants are white and VOICE is about immigrants so race doesn't really enter the picture.

[bettyellen]

10. When did he ever talk about white immigrants? Even once? It's constantly Mexicans and Islamics....

his overall messaging is about fear of brown people, not sure how you missed it. He's got no
Concern about violence against Jews or black citizens and has accused them of attacking themselves for publicity.
So yeah- he's made it clear who he considers victims and who he wants us to be afraid of- Mexicans and Islamics.

He has policies written specifically to "deal" with those two groups because he keeps telling us they are dangerous criminals.

When did he ever talk about other immigrants? Name once.

[virgogal]

12. He's talked against Mexicans and the large percentage of them

are white because of the Spanish background.

The ones that you refer to as "brown"people have dark complexions, like Greeks or Armenians.

Race doesn't enter into it,ethnicity does.

Even the Syrians that he wants to block are Caucasian.

[lunasun]

13. Yeah he's not racist at all

[virgogal]

15. Pertaining to this thread,about VOICE,racism doesn't apply..

Xenophobia applies.

[uponit7771]

14. Come on, you KNOW that's not how they're proffering immigrants. Immigrant brown people...

... and that's how the white supremacist in the White House are portraying this whole thing

[Wounded Bear]

4. It's immigrant bashing...

[luvMIdog]

5. It's the beginning of the new SS of the new freaking white supremacists regime we are now in

His buddies David Duke and others were racists before there ever were any middle east problems. His whole group is made up of racists. Yes it's white supremacy. He took the FBI off hunting down violent white supremacy groups.

[virgogal]

8. Where did you read that his whole group is racist?

I have never heard that.

All of them?

[luvMIdog]

9. Many of them definitely

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11/18/david-duke-praises-trumps-picks-racists-bannon-flynn-sessions.html

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/305912-kkk-american-nazi-party-praise-trumps-hiring-of-bannon

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/politics/white-nationalists-on-bannon/

White Supremacist Leader Congratulates Trump: ‘We Did It!’
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/01/21/white-supremacist-leader-congratulates-trump-we-did-it.html

[JustAnotherGen]

11. I can't believe you had to even post that

But thanks.

[Oneironaut]

6. Creeping Fascism. This organization clearly exists to "other" people.

The overall message is, "Those immigrants aren't like us! Be afraid!"