Michael Moore Asks Whether We’re Deporting Migrants Who Could ‘Cure Cancer’ or Stop the ‘Asteroid That’s Going to Hit Us in 2032’
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Michael Moore expressed concern that President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan could deprive the country of someone who may “cure cancer” or stop an asteroid from hitting the Earth.
“Who’s really being removed by ICE tonight? The child who would’ve discovered the cure for cancer in 2046? The 9th grade nerd who would’ve stopped that asteroid that’s gonna hit us in 2032? Do we care?” Moore wrote in a Tuesday post to his Substack.
Trump’s mass deportation plan has earned pushback from critics, especially after border czar Tom Homan articulated his intention to detain even people born in this country to illegal migrants.
Moore argued we need to “stop this current madness of rounding up people of color for committing the crime of not being born here” and used the late Steve Jobs to make his point, noting the tech guru was born to a Syrian father.
“I am grateful for that Muslim migrant baby being born here 70 years ago today. Because if he hadn’t, it’s possible we would have none of his inventions. We would also have no TED LASSO,” Moore wrote.
The filmmaker counted himself among America’s “non-hater demographic” compared to “bigots” who “rails against the danger we are all in because of these ‘filthy, lowlife aliens.'”
“Those of us who count ourselves as part of the ‘non-hater’ demographic of Americans cannot even begin to add up or ascertain the innumerable ways our lives have been made better by our beloved immigrant neighbors,” he wrote.
The Fahrenheit 9/11 director told his readers to better inform “Trumpers” in their families about migrants by listing off the children of migrants who have gone on to accomplish a lot. Moore cited everyone from KISS frontman Gene Simmons to Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
“Tonight, ICE agents all across America are banging down doors to remove the dangerous ‘illegals.’ But one of them might’ve been the guy who tomorrow was going to help rebuild a children’s playground across town — but he is now in shackles on a military cargo plane on its way to Guatemala,” Moore wrote.
