ICE is the Gestapo in Trump’s fascist America

I spent a total of seven years of my life living in Los Angeles as an illegal migrant. In that time I worked VIP security, looking after various Hollywood celebrities; was a doorman at the Skybar at the Mondrian Hotel on the Sunset Strip; got myself a SAG card and with it worked as a regular extra on Friends, ER, Alias, and also on a bunch of movies; and was Ben Affleck’s double for a spell. I had me a California ID, drivers license, bank account, and never had a problem.

From Scotland, I learned that the real currency in America is not the dollar bill but white skin. A country born in white supremacy, sustained by white supremacy, and forged in racism, it has had its mask of democracy and civility removed by Trump. Not since the one term President of the US Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, has such an openly white racist called the shots over the lives of so many to the detriment of so many, as Trump is doing now on the American continent.

The rebellion that has erupted within working class Latino communities against Trump’s fascism in Los Angeles is God’s work. I have marched with those people against the war in Iraq back in 2003. I have attended political meetings with them, I have organized alongside them, and I have listened to their stories. They represent the real America — a people with a historical memory which predates the…