Families and children migrating from Mexico are being locked up out of pure bigotry
...there's no other reason for locking up people who pose no threat at all, whose only offense carries the same weight as jaywalking or speeding.
They are jailed as a result of policy which is being openly driven by racist, bigoted, and xenophobic rhetoric - almost daily - from the president of the United States. These prosecutions are arbitrary, egregious, and disproportionate to any actual harm.
Our laws prohibit both individual instances and patterns or practices of discriminatory misconduct, i.e., treating a person differently because of race, color, national origin, sex, or religion. The misconduct covered by Title VI and the OJP (Office of Justice Programs) Program Statute includes, for example, harassment or use of racial slurs, unjustified arrests, discriminatory traffic stops...
Border law is being applied to Mexican migrants in an openly discriminatory manner - that discriminatory harassment being actively led and amplified by Pres. Trump - punishment often dispensed against groups of defendants, in bloc, in court proceedings.
We need a name for this new era of 'Jim Crow,' with racism and bigotry coming down from the highest levels of government, effectively sanctioning all other discrimination under it's umbrella of bias. The term has offensive roots, and doesn't really relate to anything concrete or meaningful, outside of the history it identifies.
I propose 'Trumpean,' 'Trumpish,' or the like. After all, modern history of our government's worst abuses against humanity will forever remember Trump for ripping children from migrant parents' arms in a cynical, punitive extension of his open bigotry.
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