Left-wing activists converged on Washington Square Park in New York City on Saturday to protest President Trump’s efforts to deport criminal immigrants living in the country illegally.
Several hundred protestors held up mostly pre-printed signs created by left-wing non-profits. Some who actually brought homemade signs had racial slogans including “white lives matter too much” and “white people do better.”
Red Alert Politics spoke to an organizer from an anti-Trump group RefuseFascism.org about her efforts to stop the President.
“We’re a broad-based group of individuals coming to this under the goal of stopping Trump/Pence,” the organizer who preferred to remain anonymous said. “We’re about building broad resistance, obviously the recent raids, the escalation of deportations, ICE being used as a deportation force for Trump. This is part of fascism as we understand it.”
The organizer was asked if she supported the deportation of criminals who came into the country illegally. She replied that she wanted other law enforcement methods, but not deportations because she didn’t believe in borders.
“I don’t uphold anything within the capitalist, imperialist system,” she continued. When Red Alert Politics asked her what was a better system, she replied, “for me, I’m a communist. I’m not here to trying to reform the system.”
She insisted that there was currently no communist country in the world, and we needed to look at the examples of the U.S.S.R. and Mao’s China.
In the 20th Century, those two forms of government killed more than 100 million of their own citizens.
Listen to the full interview below:
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