I will keep on saying this: If the mass deportations of Black and Brown people was considered racist under Trump, it doesn’t magically stop being racist just because a Democrat™ is doing it now. The silence from “allies” who were screaming bloody murder about immigration abuses under Trump is as deafening as it is hypocritical.
And I will keep saying this too: Abolish ICE. ICE is beyond “reforming.” And prosecute ICE and Border Patrol agents who commit human rights abuses.
When I was born we didn't even do this and couldn't. There was no ICE and being an "undocumented citizen" alone wasn't a punishable crime with automatic deportation. They could only deport you if you did something else jailable, like robbery.
Bill Clinton changed it in 1996 to expand the criteria for being "illegal" and also basically *require* that immigration judges deport everyone within those criteria; those judges previously had freedom of personal discretion and could decide if an undocumented citizen deserved help getting legalized instead of just locked up and shipped out, you know, the whole purpose of having a "judge" at all.
This set up the groundwork for ICE to form in only 2003 under the "war on terror" pretense. People act like this has always been a thing in America but ICE is younger than fucking Shrek.
The conditions at the bridge were definitely some terrible living conditions, but this whipping is even more inhumane. ICE might have started in 2003, but this zenophobic attitude toward immigrants/dark skinned people has been a foundational part of the country. And yes, the government’s reasoning for deporting immigrants is the same that was created in the Trump era, fear of Covid.
Okay, so obviously the sheer racism of it all is deeply disturbing. But you wanna know what the real kicker is? Joe Biden is trying to uphold a Trump policy(!) of deporting Haitians that’s based on the whole, “scary brown immigrants carry disease” okey doke. Patently racist, right? But we all know that right here in America we have Republicans flat out refusing to get vaccinated. Deport those fuckers. We have people refusing to get vaccinated, and here in America and other wealthy nations, we are debating whether or not to get a third booster shot—while people in the global south are dying because they don’t have access to even one vaccine shot!
So the answer is to target Haitians for mass deportations, back to an earthquake ravaged country that the US has a looooong history of screwing over?? GTFOH.
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