This is racism, pure and simple. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program protected children brought to this country from being punished or having the only livelihood they've ever known taken from them because of their parent's actions.

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...