Anyone could be illegal now

If you dare to show decency to people without papers, you could be an enemy of Trump's state

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JAY L CLENDENIN Getty Images A MEXICAN FLAG and a Palestinian flag are waved at a protest in Torrance against ICE and Home Depot.

On Thanksgiving evening, as Americans offered grace for their blessings and feasted with loved ones, President Trump's contribution to the country's dinner table was the digital equivalent of a flaming turd pie.

On social media, he published a screed that drew from his tried-and-true playbook personal insults against political enemies, slanders against immigrants, oscillating between calling his opponents "nice" and "STUPID."

This time, though, Trump went lower and nastier than he has ever gone before -no, really.

Freely switching between "refugee," "foreign national," "migrant" and "illegal," he declared immigration "the leading cause of social dysfunction in America" and insisted that "only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation."

That's an idea the farthest fringes of the American right have preached going back to the days of slavery, when some wanted freed Black people sent back to Africa, lest they poison democracy. In recent years, it's been proposed by socalled Heritage Americans who insist the United States rightfully-and onlybelongs to folks whose ancestors were roughing it on the frontier back in the days when passenger pigeons blotted out the sun.

But don't sit too comfy if you can trace your family back to William Bradford. Trump also wrote that he wants a "major reduction" in "disruptive populations, "anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country ... or non-compatible with Western Civilization."

What ostensibly sparked all this vitriol was the Nov. 26 shooting of two National Guard troops near the White House that left one dead and another in critical condition. The suspect is an Afghan national granted asylum for helping the American military.