Tom Toles for February 23, 2017

Lady Liberty looking for Melaria? At this point I suspect Melaria might go willingly.

As now appears the norm, ignorance and fear has superseded facts.

The actual ratio of criminal immigrants versus productive citizens is incredibly small. “Terrorists” even less.

Hopefully all the recent town hall meetings and protests are finally breaking the political fear mongoring.

POOR LADY LIBERTY {a limerick and images}

The Trumpsters don’t merely annoy her,

but vigorously seek to destroy her

by hassling non-whites

and denying their rights.

Better if ALL could enjoy her.

… Images:

√ http://okobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/trump-statue-of-liberty-cartoon.jpg – - – √ http://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/good-morning-america-donald-trump-with-terrified-statue-of-liberty.jpg – - – √ http://images.dailykos.com/images/258311/story_image/1_Look_at_that_Face_1600_vT.jpg?1464839071=========

SYCOPHANTS {a limerick}

His minions are so sycophantic,

to please him so feverishy frantic, -

- that they kiss the rump

of their President Trump.

It’s such an Ugly antic.

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ANTI-SEMITICIZED {a limerick}

Trump is rightly criticized

that Jews get anti-Semiticized

by thuggish deplorables, -

- by Alt-Right abhorribles

whose worth to our culture is mini-sized.

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Maybe we can send the Marshmallow man, the Michelin man, Stuff’N’Puff and the Snuggle Bear to defend us?

But Bibendum is French too!

The only thing Trump is doing is getting more ICE agents to enforce the laws that are already in the books. Obama did this too! Why is it only problem when Trump does it?

“Kelly is calling for 10,000 additional ICE officers and agents and 5,000 new hires at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.”

trump has called for a federal hiring freeze, where are these agents going to come from?

^He’s going to deputize the current police forces and use the National Guard.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

MOTHER OF EXILES. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

An easier and cheaper way to enforce immigration law would be to prosecute those who employ aliens not authorized to work here. If emplyers (like Trump hotels for example ) were heavily fined and/or imprisoned for employing unauthorized aliens, the flow of illegal imigration would cease.

Then there’s the image of Trump’s tiny hand up her skirt.

We’ll use Iraq’s oil to pay for the cost of invading them. —Dick Cheney

We’ll use Mexico’s imports to pay for the cost of walling them off. —Donald Trump

We’ll use Syria’s billions to pay for the cost of exporting all their pathetic persecuted political refugees. —also Donald Trump

I would think, if businesses were prosecuted for employing illegals, they would quickly have government work out a way to make them legal.

Just deport the illegal criminals. If the rest of the anchor babies and relatives from “chain migration” also want to leave, that’s fine too.