A Trump acolyte of Sikh religion is getting roasted by her MAGA bros after standing up for immigrant truckers who’re the receiving finish of nativist fury in America. Harmeet Dhillon, a California Lawyer who heads the civil rights division within the Trump administration’s Division of Justice, is discovering out that being a part of the MAGAsphere doesn’t present any cowl towards racist rage-baits – an expertise different Indian-American Trump loyalists like Kash Patel, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Dinesh D’Souza, are additionally dealing with. A current Diwali message from Patel, a die-hard Trump loyalist, drew floods of vitriol, together with calls to “return to India,” “return residence and worship your sand demons.” Following studies of immigrant Sikh drivers dealing with racial profiling after two members of the neighborhood have been concerned in deadly accident, Dhillon attacked her Democrat-run residence state of California for its “absurd coddling of unlawful aliens,” by issuing industrial drivers license with out ample checks, however urged Individuals to not discriminate towards all immigrant drivers. “These liable for these tragedies have to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the regulation…Sadly, within the fog of concern, some are utilizing these tragedies as a possibility to assault law-abiding Sikhs and Indian-origin drivers, merely due to who they’re,” she wrote in a submit on X.“It’s unlawful underneath federal regulation to discriminate towards people or assault or violently threaten them due to their race, colour, faith, or nationwide origin. The @CivilRights will aggressively prosecute or pursue justice towards these engaged in such discrimination,” she warned. Blowback from MAGA nativists was swift, with scores of scorching smackdowns. “Indian appointee defending Indian immigrants stealing jobs from Individuals. Who may have seen that coming?” wrote one troll. “ One other chimed in, “I, for one, am shocked that an indian is threatening to wield her energy towards Individuals on behalf of her co-ethnics. You’re Indian, and also you ran cowl in your India bros.”An extended-time Republican, Dhillon has been lengthy identified for work on discrimination towards Sikhs and different South Asians, together with her previous affiliation with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a company anathema to the MAGA diehards. Though she has since gravitated to the Trump orbit, she, like a few of her fellow Indian-Individuals are feeling the nativist MAGA burn that doesn’t spare folks of colour. On the similar time, they’re additionally dealing with ridicule from the so-called “Radical Left” which is taunting them for “not being white sufficient.” The dual deadly trucking accidents involving Sikh drivers although has introduced out the beast from the MAGA stomach. Though the American Trucking Affiliation (ATA) estimates a present driver scarcity of 60,000 that might go as much as 160,000 by 2030 if unaddressed, MAGA activists are arguing that the U.S has enough variety of native-born truckers, and immigrant drivers are merely undercutting the wages of native drivers – the identical argument made on the H1B entrance, the place Company America is saying the U.S doesn’t have sufficient expert tech staff and MAGA nativists are saying that may be a false declare by tech corporations in search of to chop prices with immigrant visitor staff. In line with the ATA, the scarcity of truckers is pushed by fewer native-born Individuals taking to long-haul driving due to “life-style challenges” ( lengthy hours, time away from household, powerful situations and so forth). The median age of American truckers is 46, and with out immigrants drivers, substitute ranges is not going to hold tempo with retirements. The Affiliation has warned, amongst different issues, of potential provide chain disruptions, increased delivery prices handed to shoppers, and overworked drivers risking security. However for now MAGA has pushed these issues off the highway, ratcheting up a marketing campaign towards immigrant drivers on the idea of two accidents involving Sikh drivers — from the 5000 deadly accidents yearly in America.
