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\"trump-rally-springfield\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is part one of a continuing series about what life would be like under various presidential candidates. This one is about life under a Trump\u00a0 presidency<\/a>, how it might actually impact people.<\/em><\/p>\n

Consuelo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last night, they took my abuelita <\/em>away. She had lived here for forty-eight years, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, who cleaned homes, raised three children, and has five grandchildren. I\u2019m 31, the oldest among them, and I was still awake when the six men in black uniforms broke down the front door and demanded to see the passports of everyone in the house.<\/p>\n

The Guardia always wear black, are always men, always come at night, and if you want to live to sunrise, you turn over what they want. I handed them seven American passports. I was born in a refugee camp in south Miami. My two brothers were born in Little Havana. My mother and father were born in Key West, my ten-year-old daughter was born on Tango Key, where we live now, and abuelita\u2019s bogus passport said she was born in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n

They zeroed in on that fake passport. We had paid a lot of money for authenticity, but they\u2019d taken her anyway, hauled her out of the house in the darkest dark of the night, and I have no idea where they have taken her. An interment camp, that\u2019s my guess, and there she\u2019ll be out on a train headed for Mexico? Is there a tunnel through the fifty-foot high wall?<\/p>\n

Wait, are there trains into Mexico? I don\u2019t think so. Does this mean my abuelita <\/em>and eleven million plus other illegal immigrants will be transported by a convoy of trucks?<\/p>\n

Tom<\/strong><\/p>\n

I enlisted because it was the only way I could get a job. Even McDonald\u2019s wouldn\u2019t hire me, said I was over-educated. So my college diploma isn\u2019t worth the paper it\u2019s printed on.<\/p>\n

I had hoped to go to grad school to become an architect, to design incredible buildings that are powered by the sun, by wind, by oceans. But I couldn\u2019t land the scholarship I needed and couldn\u2019t afford the tuition and my parents, who have low credit scores, couldn\u2019t even co-sign on an educational loan for me.<\/p>\n

So here I am in a place of endless deserts, endless, scorching heat, endless strife and poverty and rage. It may be Syria, but I can\u2019t be sure. We were dropped here in the middle of the night, part of a massive boots on the ground brigade, and I\u2019m scared shitless. I don\u2019t want to kill anyone. But I\u2019m surrounded by these nationalist fanatics who pump their fists in the air and shout in unison: \u201cUSA! USA! USA!\u201d<\/p>\n

Dawn<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m 23 years old. White female. I have a college degree in English, am $91,256 in debt, with a thirteen percent interest rate on that debt. I earn what is considered to be a respectable salary as an English teacher in a privatized school system. But hello, the truth is that I can\u2019t live on what I earn.<\/p>\n

My rent in Asheville for an apartment the size of a closet is nearly fifty percent of my income. The rest of what I earn is divided among my college debt, food, utilities, Internet, gas for my car. Fortunately for me, I own my car, such as it is. It was my grandfather\u2019s car way back, and after he died, I got it. A Mazda 3 is as long lasting, I hope, as the Duracell battery. 111,111 miles. All those ones bother me.<\/p>\n

The other thing that bothers me even more is that I\u2019m nine weeks pregnant and can\u2019t find a clinic within 200 miles that will perform an abortion. Wasn\u2019t this right upheld in Roe v Wade?<\/p>\n

Leandra<\/strong><\/p>\n

The water running out of my kitchen faucet is dirty, dark, the color of my skin. And it smells as rotten as old fruit. Or as sour as really dirty feet. Or like sweat-drenched clothes. It\u2019s been like this for months and the government tells us not to worry, the water\u2019s fine, like they think we\u2019re blind or something.<\/p>\n

My fourteen-year-old daughter is losing her hair, it\u2019s coming out in clumps and I saved the clumps, put them in a jar, and took the jar to the major\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the hell\u2019s going on, Mayor Louise?\u201d<\/p>\n

She was one of my mama\u2019s friends way back when and she\u2019s seen me riled up plenty of times before. But this time, she doesn\u2019t pat the air with her hands. She moves quickly past me, shuts the door, and hurries back to where I\u2019m standing, clutching the jar that holds clumps of my daughter\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve poisoned the water, Lee.\u201d She whispers this. \u201cWith lead. Same thing that happened in Flint few years back. But this time, no one\u2019s comin\u2019 to change out the pipes, no one\u2019s coming with bottled water, and the press is barred from entering town.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richard<\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen, he was the best thing that ever happened to this country. He\u2019s making America great again. I can see evidence of this everywhere I look.<\/p>\n

All the damn illegals are being deported, just like he promised, and that means more jobs for Americans.<\/p>\n

The stupid minimum wage bill the Dems tried to jam through the Congress failed. I mean, c\u2019mon, twenty bucks an hour for a secretary? <\/em>Or a janitor? <\/em>Or for someone cooking burgers at Mickey D’s?
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

He lowered the tax on corporations, just like he promised, so that my company now pays less than one percent in taxes on our gross revenues, which was about thirty million last year. I park a lot of my personal wealth in the Cayman Islands.<\/p>\n

And you know the best thing? Humvee is producing again and I just bought my first one. The wife and kids love it as much as I do. Life is good. America really is going to be great again. Yes, siree.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for part 2 of Life Under…<\/p>\n

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