No Country for Brown Children

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50. Dysfunctional systems require an identified patient

speaking of family systems theory.

Identified patient, or "IP", is a term used in a clinical setting to describe the person in a dysfunctional family who has been unconsciously, or sometimes consciously, selected to lay blame upon to draw attention away from the family's true inner conflicts, true problem behaviors, and their perpetrators. The identified patient is a diversion and a scapegoat. This person, often a child, is "the split-off false carrier of a breakdown in the entire family system," which may be a transgenerational disturbance or trauma.[1]

The term is also used in the context of organizational management, in circumstances where an individual becomes the carrier of a group problem.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identified_patient

On a societal level, brown people are the identified patients.

For Trump's dysfunctional government to work, he must have an identified patient, or "bad guy" that is the source of all the country's problems. The brown immigrants are the collective problem.