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Immigration as an excuse for autocracy
https://americasvoice.org/comunicados/immigration-as-an-excuse-for-autocracy/The militarization of immigration policy is in full swing, and the Trump administration has announced that it is speeding up construction of the largest detention center in the United States, logically on a military base, Fort Bliss, in El Paso, Texas.
Although the facility will not be completed until 2027, media reports say it will begin receiving immigrants immediately. It is expected to house 1,000 immigrants initially, with 250 beds added each week until it reaches its maximum capacity of 5,000.
Most of those detained and deported by Trump are not criminals. Of the nearly 57,000 immigrants currently detained by ICE, 71% have no criminal record, according to a report by TRAC.
But immigration is central to Trump’s strategy, exploiting the false narrative of “criminals” and “invaders” to justify all the abuses and excesses of his anti-immigrant crusade: arbitrary arrests by masked agents based on racial profiling, trampling due process, deportations to third countries, people disappearing from the system, and ignoring court orders, among many others.
Trump is using immigrants as guinea pigs to test the limits of his excesses, but his goals go beyond immigrants.
Gradually, the public is beginning to digest the magnitude of what is happening and, according to various polls, is rejecting Trump’s immigration policy of indiscriminate detentions and deportations. But the response has not yet risen to the level of the danger that threatens us.
Although the facility will not be completed until 2027, media reports say it will begin receiving immigrants immediately. It is expected to house 1,000 immigrants initially, with 250 beds added each week until it reaches its maximum capacity of 5,000.
Most of those detained and deported by Trump are not criminals. Of the nearly 57,000 immigrants currently detained by ICE, 71% have no criminal record, according to a report by TRAC.
But immigration is central to Trump’s strategy, exploiting the false narrative of “criminals” and “invaders” to justify all the abuses and excesses of his anti-immigrant crusade: arbitrary arrests by masked agents based on racial profiling, trampling due process, deportations to third countries, people disappearing from the system, and ignoring court orders, among many others.
Trump is using immigrants as guinea pigs to test the limits of his excesses, but his goals go beyond immigrants.
Gradually, the public is beginning to digest the magnitude of what is happening and, according to various polls, is rejecting Trump’s immigration policy of indiscriminate detentions and deportations. But the response has not yet risen to the level of the danger that threatens us.