The Trump administration is quietly cracking down on documented immigrants. Trump promised to reshape America — he’s already told 1 million immigrants who had legal protections to get out. Trump made an immigration crackdown a priority — Jeff Sessions made it a reality. Trump’s approach to immigration didn’t come out of nowhere: “There’s like a pride in the fact that we are terrorizing these communities”. Trump calls some immigrants “animals”, adds, “We have to break up families”. This revealing anecdote unmasks Trump’s dehumanization game. Jacqueline Stevens on when migrants are treated like slaves. How the Haitian refugee crisis led to the indefinite detention of immigrants. Collide on the U.S. border: Francis Wilkinson on the ethics of helping or halting migrants in the desert.
ICE has become Trump’s personal bullying squad. Detained, then violated: 1,224 complaints reveal a staggering pattern of sexual abuse in immigration detention — half of those accused worked for ICE. Tina Vasquez on the new ICE age: An agency unleashed. It’s time to abolish ICE: A mass-deportation strike force is incompatible with democracy and human rights.
From Philosophical Foundations of Children’s and Family Law, ed. Elizabeth Brake and Lucinda Ferguson, Matthew J. Lister (Deakin): The Rights of Families and Children at the Border. Here’s how the government managed to lose track of 1,500 migrant children. Meredith Hoffman on what separating migrant families at the border actually looks like.
As ICE separates children from parents at the border, public outrage grows. Trump’s racist immigration policy is backfiring on Trump. Trump blames Democrats for his most horrifying immigration policy. The government is “not legally responsible” for losing nearly 1,500 refugee children.
Thread: “To state the less obvious: ‘Losing’ children under one's jurisdiction is almost certainly a criminal dereliction of duty, but because of the doctrine of qualified immunity, there is essentially no chance anyone will ever be prosecuted under US law for it”. “This is America”.
Rick Santorum blames asylum-seeking parents for 1,500 children who have gone missing. Try to guess who’s the least charitable toward refugees. “The 2020 GOP platform should be one sentence: ‘life begins at conception, ends at birth, brown people are not human, and cut taxes for business and the rich’”.
