DEPORTATIONS: Who will be sent away?

With President-elect Trump threatening that there will be mass deportations of Latino people, we all should be afraid for ourselves and for the people who may be deported. This will not be first time that our country has done this. During the 1930s, 1.8 million people were deported. About 60% of this number were AMERICAN CITIZENS (720,000). People were taken from hospitals who had tuberculosis, paralysis, mental illness, or problems related to old age and they were deported.

During the Eisenhower-era (1953-54), deported undocumented people (1.3 million). Again, many were American citizens, born here. I wonder, there are American citizens (1.6 million) who live in Mexico, what would happen if Mexico forcibly round them up, placed them on buses and sent them back across the border and dumped them in the desert which was done to people with Mexican descent.

What is the cost: American born citizens cannot be deported, if they are, will they sue? If the government does this, what will it do to other ethnic groups? What happens to an American born child whose parents are here legally, but are not citizens, will they be deported? If that happens, does the child end up in the foster care system. If farm workers are sent back, who is going to pick the vegetables and fruit. If harvests are not picked, how many farms will go bankrupt. The food is processed, but if there isn’t any food to process, what happens to those workers/factories?

JUANA PERLEY

Coeur d’Alene