Trump ends DACA
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But what's worse, is that this allows President Trump's administration and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to go down the list of every DACA recipient. All 800,000 or so of them. Their names and addresses are in a registry, and ICE will start knocking on their doors. What will we do with a million (or more) additional detainees? Many of them may not even know their country of origin, many are orphans placed in homes by the federal government. Will we detain them forever? Will we build our own gulags?
As the ACLU fights to protect the rights of immigrants from being abused[1] and ICE retaliates by seeking to purge records of detainee rapes and deaths[2], rest assured, this has the makings of something that looks a lot like what genocides and purges look like in fascist regimes. We have an oppressed minority with limited freedoms, registered by the government, now open to being assailed at their home or work for committing no crime, and the government is seeking to cover up abuses committed against them while denying them legal counsel.
This is sick.
[1] https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/immigrants-right...
[2] http://www.salon.com/2017/08/29/ice-wants-to-destroy-records...
- Compliance (low-pay / unsafe conditions / unreported victims of crimes) - such as at many of the mega meat-processing facilities. Undocumented workers at mega-facilities are rarely hassled (except for token raids and rare criminal-related issues) because their companies have the clout to keep ICE/CBP in check. (I can't recall the name of a documentary, but there is a good one on this topic.)
- Indefinite incarceration in for-profit detention centers (prisons in all but name), run by companies like GEO Group, such as TNWDC. Also, underpaid detention labor and the monetization of inmates essential needs. The family and female detention centers are also horrible.
- Militarized-police-industrial complex - ICE/CBP leadership want ever-expanding budgets, increasing stats, org-chart pyramids and loftier titles, and their vendors want bigger contracts.
- And, of course, convenient scapegoating and projection against marginalized group(s) for socioeconomic conditions (The -ism's).
No it isn't. This is immigration policy, pure and simple, but I'd wouldn't call this racism, that'd be a bit hyperbolic.
Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions are racists, and their decision to put the lives of 800,000 people at risk is indeed racist.
You can call it "immigration policy" if it makes you feel better.