In light of President Trump’s plan to deport millions of immigrants from the United States, it is imperative to reassess the criteria for deportation.
The first criteria for deportation should examine the connections that the potential deportee has with the Americas. How recently has the person in question or their ancestor arrived in America? Is there any historical basis for them to remain? US citizenship should be granted immediately to Americans from the south of Mexico with 81.5% Native American DNA. It can also be granted, with discretion, to Americans from the north with 37.8% Native American DNA. Not invaders and colonizers from South Africa, England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany and France.
The second criteria for deportation should look at the contribution that a potential deportee makes to American society. How useful is this person? What do they contribute? The US needs nurses, agricultural workers and garbage collectors. It does not need former models from Slovenia who enter the USA on tourist visas, accept modelling jobs illegally, cash in on Einstein visas (having never completed their degrees at the University of Ljubljana), and then bring their parents in “chain migration” which President Trump has vowed to end.
Nor does it need a 6x bankrupt casino owner turned celebrity who, thanks to Daddy Fred, obtained a “bone spurs” exemption from the US draft, went on to disparage US veterans as suckers and losers and then attempted to incite a coup in Congress.
As to the finer details, the question remains: should repatriation proceed on a matrilineal or a patrilineal basis? With First Lady Melania Trump there is little question. She and her parents should forthwith be repatriated to Slovenia. Or, possibly, in light of President Trump’s new deportation policies, South Sudan.
Repatriation is more problematic when it comes to President Trump. He claims both Scots and German ancestry. The Cherokees, Iroquois and other tribes were matrilineal. As Mother Mary Anne MacLeod was a Scottish immigrant, should Donald be repatriated to Scotland? On the other hand, European nations are, by and large, patrilineal. Grandpa Friedrich arrived in New York in 1885. In 1905 he wrote Prince Luitpold, I am “rich” and want to return to Bavaria. Luitpold refused as Friedrich never completed his military service. (Sound familiar?)
It is no longer appropriate that Grandpa Friedrich’s sin be visited on Donald – and on the United States. It seems only just that Donald should now be repatriated. After all, 1885 does not compare with 15,000 years.
There is only one possible remaining obstacle to Donald’s repatriation. Germany might refuse to accept him. The last time a candidate ran for election in Germany with the slogan, “Make Germany Great Again,” he banned books, targeted the press, defunded the arts, demonized educators, cancelled elections, rounded up “undesireables,” and sent them to concentration camps.