David Simon creator of The Wire tweets about immigration and ICE

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17. Hayes was wrong to say this is a first for America, though. They did it to slave

families, selling children away from their parents, and Native American children were taken from their families and sent to boarding schools for forced "assimilation." At those schools they were abused, starved, forced to work, hard labor, for nothing, and not given adequate care to prevent many from dying of disease, cold, and hunger. Of those who ran away, many died.

When a marginalized, oppressed population is viewed as less than human, the dominant population allows them to be treated the way livestock is treated. The demonization of immigrants by Trump and his sycophants and enablers leads many to tell themselves such evil policies are actually necessary to protect their terrified, xenophobic asses.