Trump is now revoking the passports of American citizens. It's straight-up racist. [View all]

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It seems like every day brings another outrageous story of the Trump administration’s racist policies, but even in a year that brought us children separated from their parents at the border and held in cages this story from the Washington Post on Wednesday stands out as a dark moment for American history.

The report revealed that Trump’s State Department is now denying passports to US citizens of Hispanic descent who live near the US-Mexico border, bringing their citizenship into question.

The story reports: “The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies, and it is undertaking a widespread crackdown.”
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This kind of behaviour is perhaps dismally unsurprising, coming as it does from a president who began his campaign by calling Mexicans “rapists”. The policy of separating the children of illegal immigrants from their parents at the border was itself completely indefensible and monstrous.

But the fact that American citizenship, an American birth certificate, is no longer any bar to being targeted by Trump’s enforcement agencies is a sign that we may have entered a dangerous and dark new phase.

[link:https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2018/08/trump-now-revoking-passports-american-citizens-it-s-straight-racist|

One has to wonder, what next after this..... how far are they going to take this? What happens when the inevitable court injunction comes to put a stop to this...what will they do to these citizens then?

This???


Or this???


Or Worse???