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Where Trump Succeeds
The administration continues to accomplish its central goal of maintaining white racial hierarchy.
Its been lost in the frenzy over the Stormy Daniels affair, but in the past week, the Trump administration has sped its pursuit of a central goal: removing as many nonwhite immigrants as possible from the United States.
On Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced an end to temporary protected status for tens of thousands of Hondurans who arrived in the United States to live and work after a 1998 hurricane devastated their country. Now, these Honduranswhove spent decades integrating into American society with homes, jobs, businesses, and native-born childrenwill be given just two years before they have to leave the United States.
This marks the latest round of expulsions. Last year, the Trump administration removed similar protections for 45,000 Haitians and 2,500 Nicaraguans. At the start of the year, Trump officials did the same for 200,000 Salvadorans. (Senior U.S diplomats objected at the time to Trumps decisions to expel these immigrants, the Washington Post reported Tuesday, and warned his administration that the deportations could lead to instability in Central America and a surge in illegal immigration. They were ignored.) And just two weeks ago, the administration revoked status from 9,000 Nepalese immigrants. By January 2020, notes Dara Lind for Vox, the Trump administration will have turned 400,000 people who are currently in the US legally into unauthorized immigrants. At that point, those immigrants will be vulnerable to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency that, under Trump, has become a bona fide deportation force, utilizing draconian tactics to harass and detain peopleincluding American citizenswho pose little threat to the United States.
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It may seem banal to focus on the presidents racismsince at this point in the Trump era, its a known quantitybut the racist nature of his policies and program are still, somehow, underplayed amid all the churning controversies. The move against immigrants with temporary protected status was joined, on Monday, with a speech by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who pledged to criminally prosecute every migrant who illegally crosses the southern border and split parents from children to do it. Its a deliberately cruel change from the present procedure, where apprehended families are released to await civil deportation procedures.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/donald-trump-is-keeping-his-promises-on-race.html
msongs
(67,199 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)As for deporting immigrants, the U.S. is currently holding more undocumented immigrants (and a few citizens) in mandatory detention than any other nation on the planet. Mandatory means individual cases need not be reviewed.
On any day we have at least 30,000 people in custody. (Last data I saw, but should be obsolete. ICE is always calling for more facilities.) Many are processed within weeks, but the huge numbers involved mean many will spend months, and some even years, jailed in detention facilities. Not exactly small scale, right?
We've also started separating children from their parents at the border. That alone is a true, villainous atrocity.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)elections have consequences