I live in a neighborhood that is overwhelmingly filled with MAGA supporters. I would be hard-pressed to name more than a handful of people who think and can reason. On the other hand, if our convicted felon residing in the White House utters something to his MAGA base, it is the gospel truth.

That’s the backstory. I have spent a great deal of time this spring trimming trees and shrubs. I have transplanted hostas and black-eyed Susans and added blue sage plants to the flowerbed. However, all my flowerbeds have paver bricks that separate the flowerbeds from the grass. The flowerbeds in the front and sides of the house have these small stones. It looks nice, but when I trim the grass after moving, I will inadvertently hit the small rocks, flinging them into the grass.

Unless I immediately throw the small rocks back into the flowerbeds, they will accumulate over the summer and sometimes over the years. A couple of weeks ago, I spent more than an hour either throwing the stones back or digging them out of areas of glass. Then, I sprayed the stones with clear liquid glue, which I used on my yellow brick road to the lake. Both the mulch and stones are glued down.

This is a short video of me spraying the stones to keep them from winding up on my lawn.

I took an hour to spray about six inches of stones next to the paving block in my front and side yards. I was just finished when my MAGA neighbor from across the street stopped his car in front of my house. He mentioned that he drove past my home an hour ago and wondered what I was doing spraying rocks since there weren’t any weeds in my flowerbeds.

To keep our conversation brief, I tried to outline my desire to keep the stones out of the grass. Therefore, I sprayed a special glue that would stop stones from being accidentally hit with the trimmer cord as I trimmed around the flowerbed. As short as my explanation was, my neighbor responded with an inane comment.

My MAGA neighbor continued. Spraying the rocks also keeps them in one place. That is what Trump is doing by sending the migrants to El Salvador’s CECOT prison.

Essentially, my spraying was keeping the immigrant stones from migrating to the green grass of my yard. Trump was merely doing the same thing on a national basis. My retort was that it violated the due process issue, and not all the prisoners were actually illegal immigrants. Some of them had papers and were in the process of being allowed to live in the States.

Additionally, I mentioned that my MAGA neighbor’s beloved president is a convicted felon, and many courts have ruled against Trump for deporting immigrants without due process. I asked him if Trump’s deportees weren’t beige like my stones but white, would Trump deport them? Most of the deportees were from South America. Hence, they were Hispanic. If some were Asians or Africans, they wouldn’t be white. Would they be deported also?

Finally, I suggested to my MAGA neighbor that Trump, the felon, should be sent to the CECOT prison in El Salvador to Make America Great Again? That quickly ended our chat.