On this handout offered by the U.S. Division of Protection, a U.S. Customs and Border Safety agent watches as undocumented immigrants are loaded onto a C-17 Globemaster III at Tucson Worldwide Airport on January 23, 2025, in Tucson, Arizona. | Supply: Handout / Getty
On Sunday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers boasted that they arrested 956 undocumented immigrants after being enabled by President Donald Trump to outdo Elon Musk’s (alleged) Nazi salute by invading neighborhoods, workplaces and colleges Gestapo type whereas enacting Trump’s mass deportation agenda. (OK, ICE didn’t say all that, however the officers did look like fairly pleased with the 956 determine.)
Based on ABC 7, ICE posted concerning the greater than 900 undocumented migrants they’ve in custody along with 554 detainees briefly lodged with different businesses throughout metro Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and different main cities and smaller cities like Omaha, Nebraska.
Whereas Trump and his minions deal with the deportation and dehumanization of Black and Latino migrants who’ve crossed over the southern border, lots of people are asking one query:
What concerning the white immigrants?
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Based on the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson mentioned Thursday that he would “combat” to guard the civil rights of all Chicagoans, together with town’s immigrant group below the specter of Trump’s sweeping agenda. Throughout a information convention, Johnson additionally famous one thing qu-white attention-grabbing about which migrants have been deemed acceptable to permit to pour into America.
“What I do discover attention-grabbing is that when 30,000 Ukrainians sought asylum right here within the metropolis of Chicago, no person mentioned a mumbling phrase,” Johnson mentioned. “However rapidly Indigenous people who find themselves making an attempt to get to a land that was robbed from them by means of colonization, they need me as a Black man to be mad at them?”
Actor Wendell Pierce, a fierce Trump critic and outspoken advocate for human rights, additionally posted on X that that the “mass deportation of unlawful immigrants is a racist purge of the Latino and Black communities.”
“Discover no raids of the Russian group in Brighton Seashore or the Irish group of Boston, the place recognized undocumented immigrants often stay. No European immigrant communities raided,” he continued.
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Now, we will anticipate Trump supporters to be as delusional about this as they’re about nearly every part. They’ll name it senseless “race-baiting” and pettiness in opposition to a president who is just making an attempt to place “America first.” However the proof is in Trump’s outdated phrases.
Talking with Fox Information’ Sean Hannity, Trump, as soon as once more, railed in opposition to “open borders with folks pouring in” earlier than insisting that he can inform a few of them are “hassle” simply by their “look,” which some folks, those that aren’t being delusional and willfully obtuse, would acknowledge as a transparent nod to racial profiling.
“A few of whom, I gained’t get into it, however you may take a look at them and you may say, ‘Could possibly be hassle, might be hassle,’” he mentioned.
Oh, was that quote nonetheless too imprecise to peg Trump as racist and xenophobic? Effectively, how about throughout his marketing campaign when he repeatedly in contrast migrants to Hannibal Lecter? How about when he known as them “animals” who’re “not human?” Or possibly when he instructed the “genes” of Black and Latino migrants predisposed them to commit violent crimes. Absolutely all the occasions Trump has lied about migrants inflicting a surge in violent crime in America, which just isn’t remotely supported by violent crime information from any respected database, and his lies about them bringing “super infectious illness” to the U.S., “poisoning the blood” of the nation qualify him as a racist propagandist.
Nonetheless not sufficient?
*sigh*
Superb…
How concerning the time he explicitly mentioned out loud that he needs the U.S. obtained extra white immigrants from “good” European international locations ““like Denmark, Switzerland” or “Norway?”
Do we actually must query who Trump is focusing on in his bid to finish birthright citizenship? It ain’t Europeans. Do we actually must query why, below Trump, DOJ officers are out right here questioning the birthright citizenship of — *checks notes* — Native People?
Racism isn’t simply an unlucky and unintended results of mass deportation, it’s the inspiration behind it.
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