What Trump wins means for migrants living in the US

Former President Donald Trump shocked the world by being re-elected against all odds.

Interestingly enough, but not coincidentally, it was that he won both times against a woman, which tells you everything you need to know about why he won: America – or at least a majority of voters in the battleground states that determine the election – is not ready for a female president.

That’s why Democratic Party standard-bearer and current Vice President Kamala Harris lost. There are other reasons, but none have to do with whether she did everything she could to win the election. She did.

One that proved fatal is Latino men who voted for Trump in staggering numbers to win several background states that he otherwise would not have won if they had voted for Kamala.

The million dollar question is: why would a Latino vote for Trump, given his history of insults? But the answer is too complicated to give here.

Suffice it to say that there are more and more Latinos, especially those legalizing their status in the US, who would rather be associated with whites than be seen as a minority.

Since Trump is projected as the winner, a few things come to mind about what his presidency portends.

Those of us who advocated for the election of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz did so for different reasons. The most important of which is that we simply cannot see ourselves and our children living in a fascist country where racism rears its ugly head.

We also didn’t want our brothers and sisters living here without the proper papers and having to worry about deportation every day.

To be fair, many Kenyans living in the US have dual citizenship thanks to our 2010 Constitution and therefore do not have to worry about being deported.

Many others are permanent residents, meaning they too don’t have to worry about deportation unless they commit certain crimes.

With a Trump administration, one can expect the employment gains made by immigrants to be reversed almost overnight as racist employers refuse to hire or fire workers with impunity.

Since the passage of the Civil Rights Law of 1964, courts in America have consistently protected the civil rights of all people living in the United States, not just U.S. citizens.

More specifically, this law prohibits discrimination in several key areas that particularly affect minorities, which of course include all immigrants, such as employment and housing.

Now that Trump has already appointed three justices to the United States Supreme Court, one can expect an erosion of this civil rights law with little or no recourse in lower federal courts where he will appoint more conservative justices, and certainly not to the Supreme Court.

This would be particularly acute if Trump dismantles or severely limits Equal Employment Opportunity, the agency charged with enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workplace.

Trump has already promised to abolish the U.S. Department of Education, the impact of which would be felt most painfully by minorities, and even more so by immigrants living in communities that benefit enormously from USDE.

That’s just part of the immediate impact of a Trump presidency on immigrants. There is more, and what negatively affects all Americans in other areas would obviously also affect immigrants, which is why Trump has promised what is known as Project 25.

In short, these are policies specifically designed by ultra-right American conservatives to make life in America hell on earth for minorities and women.

This is why minorities and women have been working overtime to ensure that Trump is defeated again, but this time by a woman – but all those efforts were for naught. Any way you look at it, America changed with the November 5 vote.

This will not be the America we have known and even if it does not become a full-fledged fascist state, it will be a country where minorities will live under conditions no different than before the passage of the Civil Rights Act. above.

We can only pray and hope that this won’t happen.