This. I have a hard time believing that 60 million of my fellow citizens are Neo-Nazis. People need to calm down a bit. It’s upsetting, I get it. 

This is precisely why we have privacy in the voting booths and secret ballots.

Trump did get a larger share of the Latino vote than Mitt Romney.

I don’t know what “pull the ladder immigrant” means but I don’t understand how asking other people to follow the same laws, I and other millions of legal immigrants have had to, in order to immigrate to this country is “hypocritical.”

This. I understand the fear of someone who is illegally present in this country but that, I assume, is the fear they live with pretty much every day of their lives. If you are actively breaking immigration laws, you’re subject to deportation, Trump notwithstanding. But the rest of the stuff is pretty hyperbolic and…

I am a preschool teacher. I have heard “Donald Trump is a bad man” and “you guys, Hillary is a liar!” this past week. Where and who do you think they got it from? Are they sitting and watching CNN and Fox News before dinner? Meanwhile not one single child in the entire class could actually name or recognize the…

I don’t know about deporting minorities in particular but current immigration laws do state that any non-citizen alien present in the US without authorization is in violation of US immigration laws and therefore, subject to deportation. Heck, even if you have a green card or are a legal immigrant you can be deported…

As a brown immigrant in Trump’s America, I agree with you wholeheartedly. People make choices and engage in actions everyday; most of them innately and inherently selfish. Most of the time your own livelihood and family comes before some transgender kid in NC that you don’t know. Harsh but true - this is human nature…

Thank you for writing this. I am a brown person and I agree. People look past many, many faults when it comes to their family and the need to put food on the table. People have a hierarchy of needs and prioritize issues according to their worldview and importance. Blasting them as awful and racist is…

I am brown enough, I suppose, to ask this: are black voters “racist! sexist!” for not turning out to vote in the same numbers when there’s no black guy on top of the ballot? Especially in the face of Cheeto Jesus.

I did it legally. A million people do it legally every single year. I understand that this climate is one of fear and extreme paranoia but “it’s long and hard and expensive” is not an excuse. The fact of the matter is that not everyone who wants to be here, can be here. The US cannot is the world’s bed and breakfast.

Citizenship is a legal status. It is not a cultural thing or a feeling one has. I feel sympathy for these children and the situation they are in but them “being American” is neither rooted in legality nor fact. I say this as someone who went through the entirety of the process over several years and became a…

You’re being absolutely ridiculous and utterly overdramatic.

This. I know people who voted for Obama in 2008 and Trump on Tuesday in MI.

I’m also a numbers person :) and the one I found interesting was that more registered Democrats voted for Trump than registered Republicans voted for Clinton.

The left can be just as authoritarian as the right.

Thank you for saying this because it doesn’t get recognized at all. Because guaranteed if in 2020 it’s Paul Ryan vs Kanye West, I can’t say with certainty that lifelong, dyed in the wool, liberal Democrats would be all, “hey, at least Ryan’s sane and knows what he is doing, right? Sure, I’ll vote for him.”

Me too. Given the choice between Cruz and Trump, I’d vote for Trump ten times out of ten. That’s how much I hate Cruz.

Just a minor quibble: If you’re American born, you’re not an immigrant. That’s an oxymoron. A President cannot “deport” native-born US citizens.

+100. It’s like it’s impossible for some people here to imagine that others who share their political opinions might engage in reprehensible actions.