Regardless, Trump plans to spend a record $1.5tn on the military in 2027 – a 40% increase for the Pentagon at a time when farm bankruptcies have increased by 46%. My wife and I moved from Fremantle to New York for our careers 15 years ago, bringing our three small children with us. We lost and those wounds were still weeping when Trump sent thousands of ICE agents to Minneapolis in January. Or as my LGBTQ+ daughter put it to me: “‘Make America Great Again’ feels a lot like ‘America hates me again’.”Immigrants feel especially vulnerable. Instead, I want to return to a country that believes in simple things, like democracy, human rights and science.

Source: The Guardian April 08, 2026 01:24 UTC