By Joseph Rittenhouse
Where is our humanity?
How did we let this happen?
Across this country, hardworking men and women—many of them here for decades, tax-paying, law-abiding, community-rooted—are being rounded up like criminals. Torn from jobs. Torn from homes. Torn from children. Loaded into vans, locked behind bars, then flown out of the country with little more than a trash bag of belongings and a gaping hole where their lives used to be.
How can we sit still, unshaken, while they are ripped from their homes? While they are dragged away — in silence, or worse, to the sound of cheers — as those who want them gone, laugh with unashamed satisfaction.
We’re witnessing families being separated.
Parents locked in detention centers.
Mothers deported before dawn.
Fathers vanished before breakfast.
And feel nothing.
We watch. Some cheer. Some look away. Few cry. Fewer speak up.
Is this who we’ve become?
Yes. Let’s get the undocumented criminals, killers and rapists out of our country and while we are at it, get the citizens who live here that break the laws and create crime and mayhem, out of here or put in jail as well.
It is one thing to talk about border policy, national sovereignty, or economic strain. But it’s another to justify tearing families apart as if compassion were a luxury we can no longer afford.
Critics argue that undocumented immigrants are draining our system—taking jobs, crowding classrooms, using public benefits meant for citizens. But here’s what often gets left out: Many of these same people pay taxes. They buy groceries. They pay rent. They raise children who are American citizens. They contribute—quietly, invisibly—to the foundation of industries we depend on. Agriculture. Hospitality. Construction. Elder care.
And yet we cage them.
We send fathers away from their children. We deport mothers in the middle of picking their kids up from school. We smile in front of cages, as if suffering were just policy in action.
We’ve crossed a line. And something sacred is slipping away.
We keep saying this is just wrong. But wrong keeps happening.
Where is our humanity?
When did the spark of compassion dim so low we no longer feel the pain of another’s tears?
If we let this go on—if we continue to rationalize the destruction of families with the cold calculus of politics—we risk losing more than people. We risk losing ourselves.
When history asks us where we stood, what will we say?
“They had no papers”?
Is that the price of our empathy?
Let’s remember who we are.
Let’s remember what it means to be human.
This is not the America of our better angels. This is the America that has misplaced its soul.
But it’s not too late.
We can reclaim our humanity.
We can raise our voices for the voiceless.
We can remember what it means to love our neighbor — even if they were born elsewhere, even if they crossed borders to survive.
No one is illegal in the eyes of God.
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I have wondered the same thing for over 40 years. It is far worse now, and more in one’s face.
But has it really changed that much?
Can we go back to that shinning light on the hill?
Remember that Christian Coalition? It was all fake!
Pretending to be better than everyone else. Making 2 consenting adults, the biggest scandal of all time.
None of them cared, as all the good jobs were being set overseas! It didnt effect you.
I see it as ,phony as a $3 bill.
And you may ask, that was over 40 years ago?
Yep, all this fake patriotism, MAGA BS!
If all those “illegals” are stealing your jobs, what have you been doing with your life?
If it was such a big deal why didnt we go after those business that hires them????
I mean crossing the boarder is a misdemeanor. Not a felony!
They said they would take all those ” bad hombres”?
Now they take anyone who dosent look right. Wow, thats sick!
So throw the Constitution out the window, remove law and order.
Why? Because you blame people that may talk or look different than you?
Because your to lazy to maybe work harder, or go back to school?
If any of you have read the bible, and you still hold these people a “vile or vermin”.
Shame on you! Now go back and read the book again.
When Christmas is around, think of those traveling strangers.
When cruelty is the only part, you are a awful person, face it!
If you have no empathy for a fellow human being, you are awful person!
No go back and reflect, are you enjoying masked people picking up people for no reason?
American citizens being dragged away? Moms and dads dragged away?
Wake up America, you are no shinning light on a hill anymore.
You site quietly, and think it will never happen to me.
Its just a matter of time, and they will come for you.
You better not want me to help. Because you voted for this right?
Just keep following your false prophet, and cheer on the insanity!
Your reckoning day is just around the corner.
All patriotism is bad as where war start religions next it’s the same as patriotism because it demands that you fall in line with the door the patriotism tries to make you do things for love of country you should not do. We can’t break the world down into “sub species based upon color, race, color, eyes or where they live. We’re all of the goddamn same thing somewhere lucky to be born, where there was lots and lots of opportunities and some not so lucky. since the majority of people aren’t rich, then the rich of the ones that should be looked down on as being out of step not the other way around.
Steve I like your writing and respect your opinion but you have this a bit wrong even backward. Most wars are started based upon the excuses of religious and ethnic divides (like King Trump is currently striving to achieve). False bravado and false patriotism (used to recruit the desperate and unwitting) that follow on as bodies and rubble piles up and the forever mutilated by war come home. Stiff upper lip and all. Next you have atrocity after atrocity, war crime after war crime and lie after lie to cover them up. And finally there is a fractious peace that tenuously keeps hate filled vengeance seeking parties of both sides of the conflict. The history books are and propaganda are written by the perpetrators and the victims of these senseless wars. The grunts who did the actual fighting and killing regret what they’ve had to do to survive and frequently regret having survived hell on earth. The pseudo Patriots strap on their military grade assault weapons and uniforms. They join Militia’s and hate groups (rather than being real patriots and serving their country by joining the military, working as a First Responder or volunteering to help others in need) whose racial, ethnic and religious hatred align with their own hatreds. You can be a Patriot without every donning a uniform but now matter how many flags one drags on the ground behind their MAGGY pick em up gas guzzlers, you cannot be a Patriot and hate the very people you live and serve with because an Orange Jackass creates lies and hysteria about them. That makes you a racist fascist not a patriot! The SS and gestapo we’re not patriots because they were in the German military. Nope they were just racist fascist criminals! Unless of course you ask a racist fascist holocaust denier.
This has been my experience both in and out of the military and on and off the battlefield. It is also from my in person talks with both combatants and victims of the senseless wars I have been sent to in order to “cut the head off of the snakes running those countries” only for our own damned country to end up a self proclaimed “snake” led country of hatred and violence against others for simply being different. Unless that difference comes in the form of a shapely woman of color to be ogled in the Oval Office by a convicted sex offender as is the case of the female reporter from Ghana that King Sex Offender is enamored with and can’t believe she even speaks the King’s English.
But your point is still valid. We all come from the same cosmic dust and all live upon the same planet. Whether we do so in a responsible respectful manner is in complete jeopardy and it is in jeopardy because of the pseudo patriotism that is that hateful propaganda driven fascist ideology. It’s an illusion of purposely KKK hood shaped flag displays, unnecessary waste of time and money “love the DICKtator” military parades, tough talk by draft dodging cowards about being tough and brutal soldiers and police rather than law abiding law enforcing ones. It’s all “watch King Trump’s right hand” while his left hand is committing crimes, lying and grifting our country into division, conflict and self destruction! Putin, Xi, Un, the Ayatollah, Saudi Criminal Family and other M’erican ENEMIES are laughing their heads off over how easy it has been to fill M’erican Pseud Patriot minds with their own propaganda and lies using M’erican based media sources such as News Parodies- Fox, Newsmax, OAN, Info Wars and War Room (all convicted of lying under oath and all have been successfully sued for their absolute nonsense). And of course let’s not forget about the Q A-holes that believe JFK Swiss cheese head or JFK mangled air crash corpse Jr. are coming back any day now Again Again or how Q pulled the levers to inflame our country into divisiveness and hate using absolute nonsense, lies and conspiracy bullshit our weakest minds all fell for a paid for hooker, line of Diet Coke and a Trump Bible, watch or gold colored shoes on sale for the low low price of 80 times more than the cost to make em!
Probe underway after reports of nude women on Oklahoma state superintendent’s office TV
https://oklahomavoice.com/2025/07/25/probe-needed-after-reports-of-nude-women-on-state-superintendents-office-tv-oklahoma-speaker-says/
This is where our humanity is-Inside a raging dumpster fire of King Trump and MAGA’s making! From the Grifter and Thief doing Bitcoin and Resort Deals with foreign governments hostile to the US with a multi billion dollar jet thrown in to “sweeten the deal” while holding office of the President. Just some of the numerous violations of established law, the Emolument’s Clause and Presidential norms. Then there’s lying criminal George Santos who confessed on live tv prior to going to prison yesterday that he was motivated to tell lie after lie and commit crime after crime because he said, “I thought it was normal to break the law and lie because Trump does and gets away with it. I was desperate to be accepted as a Congressman” Now we have King Trump telling his own sycophantic followers that they have to believe his lies about Epstein and everyone else he’s decided need to go down in flames in his self created dumpster fire with him since he knows it’s the only way to wiggle and squirm out of yet another very justified investigation into HIS wrongdoing. He’s changed the IKE sign on his desk that read “the buck stops here” and replaced it “put bucks in here”!
I just wonder what MAGA will do if by some miracle the full unredacted Epstein file and enclosed client list were released and Trumps name is noted as having participated in raping underage girls? Will they demand Justice? Uphold the Trumpian Laws and deport his ass yesterday?
I seriously doubt it. In fact I’m certain they will continue to give him money, call him their meatsiah and continue to believe his every lie! Because that’s what sycophants do, especially the racist fascist ones!
ESPN Writer Stands By His Controversial Hulk Hogan Article
The article pointed to comments the late wrestler made throughout his life.
https://apple.news/AO2CcCqdHQAKukMtJtvkAbA
Wow what a shock! A MAGA sycophant was a ginormous racist! I never cared for the American theatrics of (mostly gay) steroidal freaks pretending to fight. Just as I never cared for televangelists who pretend to be good Christian’s with Rolex watches, Lear Jets and Jaguar cars as the break the 10 Commandments wantonly while preaching the exact opposite for everyone else. MAGA and and Evangelicalism are basically one and the same. A bunch of anal hypocrites preaching their do as we say not as we do ridiculousness and are both just like the WWE, a big fake show used to grift it’s flock of foolishly faithful followers!
WTF! And Why do we need this continuous grifting and fleecing of our people by their own elected PUBLIC SERVANTS! Two terms for King Dump Inc. is 8 years or possibly more of non stop corruption, incompetence and crime! Deport Dump now!
Secret Service raised water levels in river for JD Vance’s kayaking trip https://www.azfamily.com/2025/08/08/secret-service-raised-water-levels-river-jd-vances-kayaking-trip/
Don’t worry TJ Hall the party is fractured and set to implode upon itself! Even Margarine Trailer Trash Greene is unhappy with them-
What is going on with Marjorie Taylor Greene?
The far-right Republican and conspiracy theorist is suddenly speaking (a small amount of) sense. Weird!
https://apple.news/AMzE-eAqGQdmLC8Y96GjWIQ
And MAGA sycophants want us to believe history is not repeating itself? Sure aligns rather exactly with that of the fascists who took the world to war in WWII-
Hitler turned on the “Brownshirts,” also known as the SA (Sturmabteilung), during the Night of the Long Knives (June 30 – July 2, 1934) because he viewed them as a potential threat to his power and ambitions. The SA, under the leadership of Ernst Röhm, had grown too large and powerful, and their violent reputation was becoming a liability, especially as Hitler sought to consolidate power with the German army and conservative elites.
Projected 2025 is an attempt at ensuring the Third Reich will be more successful than the last one. Only thing that has changed are names and dates otherwise the parallels are undeniably clear and present. Trump may not desire to kill 6 million Jews, Poles, Romani, Disabled, Soviets, Gays and dissidents but he sure as hell likes unchecked power and inflicting misery upon anyone and everyone that isn’t halfway up his ass already. He doesn’t trust anyone except his pro corruption self. Eventually his own ego will breed another Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg who will read between the propaganda lines and take matters into their own hands. “Little Marco Rubio” strikes me as that kind of person. Only time and history will tell!
Congressional MAGA sycophant Mike Flood gets his arse handed him by his own constituency. Then claims “Fascist don’t hold public meetings!”
Congressman Flood met with boisterous opposition over ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ at Lincoln town hall
https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/congressman-flood-met-with-boisterous-opposition-over-big-beautiful-bill-at-lincoln-town-hall/
Well Mr Flood you seem to forget history like the rest of your deranged party of Fascists!
The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch
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Ill Douche addresses Fascist
https://youtu.be/xpnF7SiZeqQ?
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MAGA says it is not Fascist and yet they have followed the blueprint of every Fascist Tyrant ever! Eliminating oversight, removing accountability and attacking everything and everyone in the way of their hate filled agendas.