A continuous attack on inclusive policies. Whether it is migrants, people with disabilities, homosexuals, or any other fragility, the new president Donald Trump seems to be intent on leaning on the weakest categories the fault of everything that does not work in the States and erase the rights of large bands of the population. The US bishops expressed concern and pain. An official press release signed by Monsignor Timothy Broglio, military ordinary for the United States of America and president of the US episcopal conference, has highlighted the dangers that nest in Trump’s decisions: “Some provisions contained in the executive orders, such as those focused on the treatment of immigrants e refugees, foreign aid, on the extension of the death penalty and on the environment, they are deeply worrying and will have negative consequences, many of which will damage the most vulnerable among us», We read in the note. And if, on migrants in particular, Monsignor Broglio recalls that “if there is someone who has also come here illegally and needs assistance you have to help him because it is Christ himself who asks us”on the issue of assistance to all people in need replies to the accusations of Trump to exploit state funds specifying: «We spend from our resources more than we receive to help the poor “. Meanwhile, Trump, in addition to mass deportations, has also canceled the support programs in the world to the patients of AIDS and positive HIV people and, for the United States, has cut the programs for health right for millions of poor and vulnerable people; He fired the federal employees involved in inclusion programs and removed the funds for projects on diversity. No category seems to be spared.
“From the settlement to today”, they denounce from Coordown, the coordination of the associations of people with Down syndrome, “Trump has decided to interrupt and hinder diversity equity and inclusion programs – dei and to attack all categories of marginalized people from frontally. Only one was missing: disability. We wondered when our turn would arrive. We didn’t have to wait a lot». Cordordown refers to the last exit of Trump who, as is known, during the press conference convened following the tragic plane crash that took place in the USA has blamed the inclusion policy adopted by the Federal Aviation Agency that would have worsen quality standards. When he was asked how he could tie the tragedy to politics on diversity, the new president replied: “Because I have common sense”.
Several associations engaged on the topic recalled that the greatest tragedies for humanity begin to trample the rights of the most vulnerable. “We must never forget,” for example, Fortunato Nicoletti, vice -president of the volunteer organization “Nobody is excluded”, explained, dedicated to families with people affected by rare diseases and disabilities, “that the Holocaust, who has remembered Just a few days ago, he was born years earlier with the Aktion T4 program through which Nazi Germany planned the suppression of people with genetic diseases and especially intellectual disabilities, as “their lives were not considered worthy of being lived”. That day and that terrible period, however, it seems that not everyone taught something ».
