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Jamaicans lining in hundreds at the US Embassy in Kingston tells the story.

It would not be outrageous to say the majority of people in Jamaica covet living in the United States and laying their hands on that prized green card.

There are many Jamaicans who made their way to the United States and built a life there. Many married, not for love but for naturalization, others got there by more ingenious means.

Donald Trump decimated Kamala Harris in his battle to secure the presidency. He was way ahead with the Electoral College, he won the popular vote, helped to secure the Senate and his party will win the House. He now has a complete mandate and can go after smashing liberalism and wokeness. 

A major part of his agenda is to deport illegal immigrants. This will cause trepidation with many Jamaicans seeking a new life in America.

There are so many Jamaicans who believe their home country has nothing to offer but poverty, crime and no pathway to upward mobility. The American dream has now become the Jamaican dream.

But Trump and his supporters want Jamaicans to remain in their country. They don’t see them adding value to the United States and all too often associate Jamaicans with violent crime, disorder and chaos.

There will now be a mandate to reduce the number of legal immigrants, coming in from Jamaica and American diplomats will be instructed to keep Jamaicans at bay—stay in Jamaica and work on developing your own country.

Political leaders in Jamaica should seize on this and tell their people to remain and build Jamaica. It will take those willing to work, its best talent, law-abiding citizens who can make the most of opportunities to get Jamaica into a better place from where it currently is.

Jamaicans are proud and should never go to countries where they are not wanted or valued. Jamaica can be a true jewel in the Caribbean. It has natural resources, and industrious people, it is not overly populated—it truly can be a place to live, work and raise families.

Donald Trump will change America and will put its people first in all things. He is not keen to see diversity but favours a Judaeo-Christian, Anglo-Saxon-led country where those values and culture shape the country. He will make America a white man’s world and the darker people will have to know their place.

It was political genius to get both blacks and Hispanics to buy into the notion that immigrants were depriving them of opportunities and resources. That helped get him over the line with votes. Now that he is overwhelmingly the Commander-In-Chief, he will set about beginning the process of implementing a new order.

African-American and Latino voters were transactional here—they are looking to Trump to put money in their pockets and that they don’t slide down the pecking order after immigrants. They have not truly factored what a Trump presidency means. Their culture, their communities will be neglected. They made a bargain with Mephistopheles and he took their souls.

When Jamaicans migrate to America, they generally tend to be hard-working, productive contributing people. To deny them will be America’s loss but that can be utilised to the betterment of Jamaica. It needs leadership here who can see that.

Relying on those in the Diaspora to send money home should never be considered a revenue stream. You want your best people making Jamaica great.

The rallying cry now should be Sweet Jamaica! It is up to Jamicans to make their country a paradise and don’t go looking to America to fulfil their dreams. Live your lives in Jamaica, educate your children in Jamaica, retire and live your golden years in Jamaica.  Contribute to your country, the country of your forebears.  Leave it to Donald Trump to see if he can Make America Great Again—that’s his mission, not yours. 

The white working class will now believe they have a champion in Trump, one who will protect them from the dark hordes who will contaminate the blood of the country. Many will be emboldened and immigrants will be made to feel like second-class citizens. Do Jamaicans really want to subject themselves to that? 

Trump has promised mass deportation and that he has no choice but to carry them out. His crushing victory over Kamala Harris now gives him a mandate to carry out the largest deportation in American history.

Don’t be fooled into thinking the goal is to prevent illegal immigrants from coming into America—it’s all immigrants coming to America.

It is a key objective that he wants to get accomplished and there is no price tag.

Here Trump said: “It’s not a question of a price tag. It’s not—really, we have no choice. When people have killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries and now they’re are going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here. There is no price tag.”

Trump gained with blacks, Latinos, white men, women and young voters. He has formed a diverse coalition. 

Reflecting on his victory he said: “I started to see realignment could happen because the Democrats are not in line with the thinking of the country. You can’t have defund the police, those kind of things. They don’t work and the people understand that.”

So to Jamaicans, the thinking of the people of America is we don’t want you in our country, so stay in your own and help make it great.